Notebooks

Keywords

- given by Piet Lynx 1138
- more Koranna divisions 1138

!au
- is a utensil for eating 584
- shaped rib-bone 584
- the making of 584
- the working or shaping of 584
- used for eating gambro and |kuiten 584

!gabbaken-!gabbaken
- his wife found fault with his appearance 676
- how he punished his wife for making personal remarks 676
- or Mason Wasp 676
- possessed weapons 676
- shot his wife and killed her with an arrow intended for the Hare 676
- was formerly a man 676

!gaunu
- a song sung by, especially by women 518
- and 'Aquilae's water' 690
- and flowers 517
- and stars 517
- and the Dawn's stars 505
- and the names of stars 517
- asks the ||garraken flower to open 517
- great Star 505
- his song 505
- his song to the Star 517
- is !guonni 517, 519
- loved the Star 517
- named the stars 505
- names he gave to stars 690
- rejoices 517
- singing named the stars 505
- sings about the ||garraken flower and the ≠ku yam flower 518
- sings that the ≠ku yam is the one that opens 517
- sings to the flowers and stars 517
- Sirius 517
- the great Star 690
- the honey singer 517
- the Star 517
- was formerly a person 517

!gaunu tsaxau
- |kaggen's son is 602

!gaunu-tsaxau
- 'living returns' 666
- the Baboons play with his eyeball 666
- the death and resurrection of 666
- –the son of |kaggen, the Baboons, and |kaggen 666

!goe !kweitentu
- !goe !kwaiten ttu 239
- !gwe-!kweiten-ttu 353
- 'cross man' 38
- 'foot's armpits' 38
- 'old man' 38
- and |kaggen 239
- beating of 38
- beats |kaggen 38
- deceives and defeats |kaggen 353
- dust and 38
- eyes in feet of 38
- eyes in toes of 38
- eyes of on ground 38
- feet of 38
- fights with |kaggen 38, 88
- fights |kaggen 239
- has eyes in its feet 239
- head-wounds of 38
- Ignis fatuus 353
- is blinded 38
- its eyes are between its toes 353
- its fight with |kaggen 353
- possibly will o' the wisp, or marsh gas 353
- the location of its eyes 353
- the monster ||khwai-hemm's speech and 88
- toes of 38
- |kaggen and 38, 353
- |kaggen crosses its spoor 88

!goin-!goin
- and a dance 598
- and finding and eating honey 598
- beating it 598
- method of playing 598
- used for calling bees 598

!goura
- a musical instrument 154, 506, 511
- and lightning 511
- and new maiden's glance 184
- and the rain 511
- and the thunderstorm 511
- Dia!kwain played his in a thunderstorm 511
- musical instrument 184
- of the youth turned to stone 506
- or bow 511
- played by man transformed into a tree 184
- song sung to 154

!guerriten-dde
- his cap made of springbok's scalp with springbok ears 803
- the springbok–sorcerer 803

!guonni
- !gaunu is 519
- 'bewitches us to death' 519
- buzzes or hums inside the hole 519
- flies away 519
- his actions 519
- his doings 519
- his spear 519
- his strong thing 519
- is a 'thing' which 'pinches the chest' 519
- is at the bee's hole 519
- knocks people down 519
- pinches 519
- sharpens his point 519
- stabs and makes people ill 519
- stabs or bewitches 519
- stabs people 519
- the people beat him to death 519
- what people do when they know his doings 519

!gwa !nuntu
- and his grandchild Ttau ho 618
- and the Elephant's chest 618
- and the Elephants 618
- and the Hyenas 618
- and the old woman's chest 618
- carries an ostrich-feather brush 618
- comes out of the back of the Elephant's head 618
- enters the Elephant's navel 618
- goes into the clouds 618
- goes into the Elephant's stomach 618
- his daughter 618
- his daughter questions him 618
- his daughter's rebuke 618
- his doings 618
- his granddaughter 618
- is bewitched into sleeping in the veld 618
- is foolish 618
- is old 618
- is one of the Early Race, the !xwe ||na ssho !kui 618
- rescues the child 618
- sleeps in a hole 618
- tramples the Elephant's heart 618

!haken
- and 'Bushman rice' sieved by people of the Early Race in things called !yuiten 861

!hau-!hau
- a hunting charm 674
- an explanation of 674
- and hunting 674
- for missing one's aim 674
- the making of 674

!haunu
- a rain's person 900
- accounting for his name 900
- dies thundering 900
- his fight with ≠kagara 900
- his name resembles mucus 900
- his things resemble water 900
- his wife carries his things 900
- is a man 900
- is a rain-sorcerer 900
- is killed by ≠kagara and his lightning 900
- is the rain 900
- is ≠kagara's brother-in-law 900
- makes thunder and lightning 900
- sneezes blood 900
- ≠kagara binds up his head 900
- ≠kagara rubs buchu as protection from his thundering 900

!ho
- a peculiar state of the atmosphere 500
- and Ko-boken 499
- and standing instead of sitting at dawn 500
- and sticks that seek people 500
- and the consequences of people standing over others 500
- and the consequences of standing at dawn 499
- and the early morning 500
- is a mirage 500
- is a whirlwind 499, 500
- its ill effect on people 500
- its ill effects on people 499
- knocks down and kills people 500
- makes people ill and kills them 499
- on the hunting-ground 499
- teachings about 499, 500
- warnings about 499, 500

!huin plant
- and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara 862
- is eaten by people 862
- where the Day's Heart star buries and hides the Day's Heart child 862

!huin roots
- are thrown into the sky by the new maiden 658
- covered in wood ash become the stars and the Milky Way 658

!k'anni
- a description of 841, 841
- a form of adornment 841
- an ornament tied to the hair 841
- an ornament worn by men and women 841
- |han≠kass'o's remarks about 841

!kagen
- and the sending of the Crows 120
- Crow 120
- fat tied on throat of 120

!kain
- a bird 905
- his appearance 905
- his head is bare and red 905
- is bald 905
- is proud on account of the Ostrich's hair 905
- is vain 905
- the !khau snatches the hair away from him 905
- who snatched off the hair of the Ostrich's head, and put it on his own head 905

!kaken-!kaka-!k'aui
- is a magic bird 269
- is a man who is different 269
- is different 269
- its eggs 269
- its fight with |kaggen 269
- talks 269
- |kaggen takes its eggs 269

!kan ||ka ||karashe
- a !kun song about 954
- eaten by the !kun 954

!kauruwo
- asks for |kaggen to be rescued 610
- asks people to treat |kaggen gently 610
- is |kaggen's wife 610
- scolds |kaggen 610
- the Dassie or rock rabbit 602
- |kaggen and |kwammana visit the Dassie's house 610
- |kaggen's wife 602

!ke tsa'ba
- a !kun song about 973
- a description of 973
- bird 973
- eats a root called the djon 973
- is respected and not eaten by the !kun 973
- its song 973
- the diet and habits of 973

!khannumup
- a memo from A. Martin 1125
- additional information about him from A. Martin 1125
- and Mr Martin 1124
- and the Bondelswarts 1124
- details of his capture and imprisonment 1124
- from Great Namaqualand 1124
- his dwelling-place, Ou-op 1124
- his father's place was Kopjes Kuil, or |neidas 1124
- his genealogy 1124
- his personal history 1124, 1125
- his physical characteristics and measurements 1125
- or Petros Willems 1124, 1125
- the name of his family, the Kaross-Herbers 1124
- the names of his relations 1124
- was named after his mother 1124
- was on his way home 1124
- was released from Robben Island 1124
- was wrongfully imprisoned 1124
- where he came from 1124

!khau
- !kau 678, 696, 697, 698, 768
- 'lizard-scrap' 691
- a lizard of the genus Agama 696
- a lizard of the genus Agama or kochelman 613
- a person of the Early Race 691
- Agama lizard 678, 691, 697, 768
- and springbok hunting which follows rain 613
- and the Lion's 'head-shadow' 768
- and the rain 613
- and the rain-clouds 613
- and the song of the Agama lizard 906
- and the whirlwind 678
- and |kaggen's dream 906
- breaks in half and becomes !guru |na's pass and |xe-!khwai's pass 696
- brings home his own flesh as food 678
- broken in two by the mountain 696, 697
- calls to the Mice 906
- digs for 'Bushman rice' 768
- eats maggots 768
- frustrates the rain 613
- hides in holes 768
- his child 678
- his child's song 678, 691
- his daughter 906
- his flesh 691
- his flesh resembles the Quagga's 678
- his journey to a pool in the red sandhills 697
- his wife 678
- how people make it descend the tree 613
- is a person of the Early Race 696, 697
- is a rain's thing 613
- is angry with the !kain 905
- is carried off by the Lion 768
- is killed by the Lion 768
- is proud of the !kain's head's hair 905
- is tricked and killed by the Striped Mouse 906
- its 'earth's ditch's Gemsbok' 768
- its actions 613
- its actions prevent the rain from coming 613
- kills the Long-nosed Mouse's springbok 906
- lies in the Driedoorn tree 906
- lies on the Driedoorn tree 613
- lizard of the genus Agama 698
- lizard, of the genus Agama 905
- or !kau 691
- people shoot it 613
- plays with the !kain and takes his hair 905
- remarks by |han≠kass'o on the story of the death of 697
- snatches the !kain's head's hair 905
- squeezed to death by the mountain 696
- taunts the Lion 768
- the Agama lizard 906
- the death of 696
- the kochelman 696, 697, 698
- the Lizard, the Mice and |kaggen 906
- the male 613
- the nature and habits of 696
- the occasion upon which the story of the !khau was related to |han≠kass'o by his mother 698
- the transformation of 696
- tricks and kills the Long-nosed Mice 906
- was a person 678
- was formerly a person of the Early Race 905
- what people say to it 613
- where it is found 696
- who resembles the Quagga 678
- who was formerly a man 691

!khwa
- and the rain's things or !khoa ka ||kerri-ssi !kau 580
- the Rain 580
- the rain-bull or waterbull 580

!khwe-|na ssho-!kui
- does not understand 283
- gives young Lion a name 283
- his son understands and is a child who talks 283
- his thinking channels were closed 283
- his thinking strings 283
- his wife is an understanding's or grown-up person 283
- is foolish 283
- killed by young Lion 283
- takes young Lion as a dog 283
- the First Bushman 283

!ko'-g !nuin-tara
- and her child, the Day's Heart child 862
- and her husband, the Day's Heart star 862
- and her younger sister, |xe-dde-yo'e 862
- and the Day's Heart star 862
- and the She-Hyena 862
- attacks her sister 862
- becomes a beast of prey 862
- has Lynx-hair 862
- her 'thinking strings are still standing' 862
- her 'thinking strings fall' 862
- her clothing and ornaments come off when she becomes a Lynx 862
- her memory leaves her 862
- her story 862
- how her sister and her husband capture her 862
- is poisoned 862
- is tranformed into a Lynx 862
- keeps her ear tufts 862
- lives in the reeds 862
- springs on her sister as a Lynx 862
- the Day's Heart star anoints her with the contents of a goat's stomach 862
- the Day's Heart star removes her Lynx-hair 862
- the She-Hyena deceives and wears her ornaments 862

!koranna
- and Bushman 1137
- and the blackness 1137
- why they posess cattle 1137

!koroken !koroken
- avoiding playing with its name 562
- bird 562
- brings bad news 562
- cuts a person's foot 562
- disrespecting 562
- its call 562
- knows evil 562
- knows things 562
- knows what happens far away 562
- makes people lame 562
- prohibitions relating to 562
- teachings about 562
- telephonus 562
- tells people things 562
- the consequences of mocking it 562
- the nature and habits of 562
- why it comes to people 562

!korro-ssin !ku
- a song of 977
- the 'Pit-making Bushmen' 977

!kotta-kkoe
- has a hole in his stomach 884
- he and his brother 'seeking go' for ostrich eggs 884
- his brother, ostrich eggs and Korannas 884
- his escape from the Korannas 884
- his stomach makes a '!yok !yok' noise 884
- his stomach projects from the ostrich eggs 884
- is a man of the Early Race 884
- is divided 884
- is not alive 884
- pretends to be dying 884
- sharpens a Crieboom branch and closes up the skin of his stomach 884
- swallows ostrich eggs 884
- tricks the Korannas 884

!ku dance
- and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara 862
- men nod and women clap in 862
- or game 862
- where the She-Hyena is exposed 862

!kuerre-!kuerre
- a bird 629
- its actions 629
- its appearance 629
- its diet 629
- its nature and habits 629
- the fluttering of its wings 629
- the |xam word for the action of its wings 629

!kuiten
- found near water 757
- is eaten by people 757
- is found in ||kabbo's country 757
- the bulbs of are eaten by people 757

!kuken !kakka !ani
- an Ostrich who is different 38
- and |kaggen's arrow 38
- eggs of 38
- one who talks 38
- |kaggen and !goe !kweitentu 38
- |kaggen fights with 38

!kun
- !nanni and his relations 980
- and finding food 1043
- and prayers to the young moon 1043
- and the Makoba 1041
- and the young moon's story 1043
- and the |ka kue and the |nani in their country 1018
- and their country 1027
- and wife-beating 1043
- and wife-killing or uxoricide 1043
- Biriko 1041
- creation story of, told by Tamme 1057
- customs at death 1048, 1049
- different groups of 974, 976, 977, 1027
- dress after death 1049
- experiences of the -boys 1112
- fear the Makoba 985
- get ill on 'dacca' 1007
- groups of 980, 1041
- how Tamme was taken from his people 985
- Hu'-we, who is a Bushman and is also called |xue 1091
- hunt elephants to tusks trade for food with the Makoba 1007
- in !nanni and Tamme's country 974
- in !nanni's country 1007
- in Hereroland 948
- men, dress of 998
- names of different groups of 1041
- names of groups of 1027
- names of ‘different kinds’ given by Tamme 1092
- of !nanni's country divine events using a set of wooden pieces called |xu 1050
- people in Tamme's country respect the mantis and do not eat it 1060
- relations 1043
- song of the |kam-ssin !ku 976
- songs and customs 974
- story of the death of Bushmen 1057
- the !korro-ssin !ku or 'Pit-making Bushmen' 977
- the !korro-ssin !ku, or 'Pit-making Bushmen' 974
- the 'Ongova Bushmen' 948
- the actions of widows 1048
- the death of !nanni's uncle 1041
- the family 1043
- the groups that !nanni and Tamme belong to 1027
- the names of their countries 1027
- the peoples found in their country 968
- the peoples of their country 986
- the roles of men and women 1043
- the treatment of wives and children 1041
- the treatment of women by their husbands 1043
- the |kam-ssin !ku, or 'Sun Bushmen' 974
- their country 986
- their experiences with the other peoples of their country 985
- their marriages 1041
- their methods of making houses 1003
- their relations with other peoples in their country 1112
- their relations with others 1013, 1018, 1041
- their relations with the Makoba 1007
- their relations with the Makoba and the Ovambo 985
- their relations with the Ovambo and Ovaherero 986
- their relations with the |nani 1013
- use a set of divining pieces, or |xu 1042
- vocabulary 948
- vocabulary given by !nanni and Tamme to Jemima Bleek in 1879 2023
- what they call spirits or dreams 1020
- words 1151
- words given by !nanni and Tamme 948
- |kam-ssin !ku or 'Sun Bushmen' 976

!kuobba-an
- and ||kabbo's dream 268
- and ||kabbo's return 268
- staying with people who are different 268
- ||kabbo's wife 268

!kuommain |ka ||kau
- !ga ka Kkumm or the Frog's story 928, 928
- disappears into a flat stone 928
- he disappears into a flat stone 925
- is the Frog's husband 925, 928
- runs away 928
- the Beetle's smell makes him run away 928
- the Blue Crane searches for 925
- the Blue Crane snatches at him and misses 925
- the Blue Crane's in-law, or ||yen 925
- thinks his wife the Frog is pregnant 928

!kuppen
- 'a play it is, a women's play' 909
- how women imitate the sound of the horse by striking a kaross 909

!kwai !kwai
- a description of 615
- bird 615
- is burnt in the fire 615
- puts children in its net 615
- resembles the Duiker 615
- the !kwai !kwai, |kaggen and the children 615
- the appearance of 615
- the children and |kaggen roast it in the fire 615
- wants to kill the children 615
- was formerly a man 615
- |kaggen dreams of it 615

!kwai-!kwa
- and his fatal adventure with a leopard 483
- or Gemsbok Leg 483

!kweiten ta ||ken
- about her relations and their places 370
- and personal history of ≠kasin 111
- her family's place 370
- her father and story of Xurri ko and a lion 383
- her father killed the lion that killed Xurri ko 383, 383
- her genealogy 370
- her personal history 370, 438
- her relations were 'killed by sorcery' 438
- her sister | a khumm called by a lion 385
- is ≠kasin's wife 111
- Rachel 370, 438
- the giving of her name 438
- the names of her relations 370
- was given an orphan's name 438

!na !na'rishe
- a description of 978
- bird 978
- sings of the disappearance of the people from its country 978
- the habits and diet of 978
- the song of 978

!nabbe
- a tail-hair brush 672
- the 'Bushman pocket-handkerchief' 672
- the making of 672
- the preparation of tails for 672
- the tail-hair used in 672
- the types of hair used for 672
- the use of the Driedoorn stick in 672

!nana-an
- calling out to wounded game to make it die quickly 849
- calling to gemsbok 849
- calling to ostrich 849
- the custom of calling to the wounded springbok 849

!nanna-sse
- an explanation of 707
- and shooting springbok successfully 707
- and the actions of the man who shoots game 707
- and the hunting and killing of game 474
- and the treatment of bones 707
- hunting observances 474, 707, 709
- playing with the springbok's bones and skin makes a person ill 709
- respecting the game 707, 709
- springbok possess magic arrows 709
- the treatment of springbok bones 709

!nanni
- '||nanni' 2023
- a story of his family 1041
- about his parents and siblings 959
- an aunt killed by elephant 982
- and his paternal grandfather, Karu 1047
- and the Makoba 1007
- and trading elephant tusks for food with the Makoba 1007
- he is a ||no !kun 1027
- his brother beats the drum in the trance dance but not his father 1001
- his country is called Kaku i ra 1027
- his drawing of |kui 1108
- his experience of the trance dance 1001
- his family tree 955
- his father ya ||ne's fight with his grandfather, Karu 1041
- his genealogy 972
- his grandfather Karu's father-in-law, ||namme 1041
- his grandfather told him about |xue 1014
- his mother feared the night 990
- his parent's and grandparent's countries 1041
- his paternal grandfather is Karu 1012
- his paternal grandfather Karu's prayer to the young moon 1043
- his paternal grandfather told him many things 1009
- his paternal grandmother beat a stone on the ground 1010
- his people 974
- his people get ill on dacca 1007
- his personal history 955, 959, 961, 964, 972, 974, 980, 982, 990, 999, 1001, 1007, 1027, 1041, 1047, 1053
- his relations 964, 980, 982
- his uncle's name was |un'ta 1041
- how his relations gathered Kai for poison 1053
- is a 'Sun Bushman', or 'sun child' 974
- names of his relations 955
- recites a prayer to the young moon 1040
- saw |xue when he was with the Herero 1012
- tells of |xue 1014
- the !kun of his country do not make pots 989
- the !kun of his country use pieces of wood called |xu for divining future events 1050
- the death and burial of his little brother 999
- the death of his uncle 1041
- the different people in his country 974
- the languages he speaks and understands 974
- the names of his close relations 972
- the names of his father and paternal grandfather 996
- the names of his grandparents 980
- the names of his relations 1041, 1053
- the names of his siblings 959, 961
- the origins of his grandparents 980
- was afraid of |xue and cried 1047
- what his father told him to eat and avoid 996
- what his father wore 998
- what his grandfather Karu told him about Hu'-we 1091
- what his grandfather told him about |xue 1012
- what his paternal grandfather Karu told him about |xue 1034
- what Karu told him about |xue 1047
- words and sentences given by him to Jemima Bleek in 1879 2023
- words given by 1151

!nauxa
- a 'Grass', or |nu'sa', Bushman 1122
- a memo from A. Martin 1125
- about his country 1122
- additional information about him from A. Martin 1125
- at the SA Museum 1122
- his 'Hottentot' companion, !khannumup 1122
- his genealogy 1122
- his other names 1122
- his personal history 1122, 1125
- his physical characteristics and measurements 1125
- his place 1122
- or Willem 1125
- or Willem, or !nau xama 1122
- photographed by Hermann at SA Museum 1122
- the doings of his people 1122
- the names of his relations 1122
- the names of mountains in his country 1122
- where he lived 1122

!naxane
- a plant 1047
- and Karu on |xue 1047
- given to !nanni to eat 1047
- plant 1022, 1028
- |xue and the ostriches 1028
- |xue becomes 1022, 1028

!nu !numma-!kuiten
- accounting for his name 890
- and !kotta koe, who was a man 890
- fetches and kills children who cry 890
- or White Mouth 890
- parents threaten children with 890
- swallows meat and eggs whole 890
- was formerly a beast of prey 890
- what |han≠kass'o's grandfather Tsatsi told him about 890

!nu !nurussi
- ceremony performed with 792
- eats the child's illness 792
- is left alone after curing 792
- is not used again 792
- is placedopposite the side of the house 792
- is tied on the child's throat 792
- is used living 792
- takes away illness 792
- the Brachycerus, or African ground weevil 792
- used to cure little children 792

!nuin-|kui-ten
- and Dia!kwain's ancestors 456
- and Dia!kwain's father Xaa-ttin 458
- and the broken string 459
- and what Xaa-ttin used to sing 460
- and Xaa-ttin's song about the broken string 460
- became a lion 458
- calls Xaa-ttin in his sleep 460
- causes illness 460
- concealed his lion's body 458
- feels he is about to die 458
- feels the string is broken 458
- gives rain 456
- his actions 458
- his actions in the form of an animal 458
- his character 458
- his magical expeditions 458
- his personal history 458
- his place 458
- his transformation 458
- is dead 456
- killed a 'Boer's' ox when a lion 458
- leads out the rain-bull 460
- taught Xaa-ttin songs and magic 458
- the rainmaker 456
- the rainmaker or rain-sorcerer 459, 460
- walked about at night 458
- wants to be remembered 458
- was an angry man 458
- was killed by a 'Boer' commando 458
- what people say when they see his spoor 458
- who was a rainmaker 458
- who was a sorcerer or magician 458
- Xaa-ttin asks him for rain 456
- Xaa-ttin's song about 459

!nwa !koro
- resembles Xu gwai in a photograph seen by |han≠kass'o 912

!xen
- and the steenbok 799
- Dirk 799
- fears the steenbok 799
- his personal history 799
- misses his aim at the steenbok 799
- throws dust in the steenbok's eyes 799

!xugen-ddi
- beats the game to prevent it being killed 490
- game once tame: why it grew wild 490

!yoa-ka-ttu
- and the Blue Crane and the girls 888
- breaks wind 888
- cuts off the Blue Crane's shoulder and head 888
- is a man of the Early Race 888
- lies in the !khi tree 888
- or 'Bad-smelling-mouth' 888
- runs after the girls to kill them 888
- smells bad, like a 'decayed thing' 888
- stabs the Blue Crane with his assegai 888
- tries to kill the Blue Crane who does not die 888

aardwolf
- and Anteater's laws 192
- and porcupine hunting 729
- and story of Strandwolf and Aardwolf 192
- and the porcupine are kua kua ssi-kuiten, or things that people do not perceive 729
- habits of 192
- hunting of with a dog 161
- its hair used in the making of the |khu or the 'Bushman soup spoon' 585
- marry own kind 192
- names for 585
- or Proteles 192
- Proteles 161, 585, 729
- |gipp 161, 585, 729

Aardwolf
- Proteles 660
- Striped Jackal 660
- |gipp 660
- |ku 660
- |kwammana, the Ichneumon and |kaggen visit its house 660

abuse
- of |gui-an by her mistress, Trina de Klerk 773
- of |xam workers by their masters and mistresses 773

Adam Kleinhardt
- his personal history 2

address
- 'a jackal appears to be coming' 815
- a man respects his wife's mother 1079
- a prayer addressed to the Moon 464
- actions performed during 464
- and dreams and rain 811
- and Moon and Hare story 464
- and rainmaking 578
- and remarks concerning copies of Bushman pictures nos. I-XXIV 578
- and respect in the family 1080
- and the story of the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- asking for rain and rainmaking 811
- by a man with a good heart who does not scold it 852
- by old men 815
- for the springbok as 'beast of prey' 705
- for women and men 1079
- how the people imitate the sounds of the ewes and 'lambs' in the herd when hunting 705
- joyful, to rejoice in an abundance of food 880
- mode of, to the rain 815
- modes of addressing the rain 811
- of rainmakers to the rain 578
- of the rainmakers to the rain 452
- of the wind and hunting 701
- or call to the rain by rainmakers 811
- or prayer to the star Canopus and Sirius 322
- rituals and actions performed when addressing the rain 452
- terms of address for in-laws 1080
- terms of, for in-laws 1079
- the use of the terms ≠khumm and |ui sau 1079
- the ||kerri: a bird which eats locusts; and locust-hunting 657
- to Sirius and Canopus 880
- to the angry rain 452, 852
- to the clouds 815
- to the rain 852
- to wife of Day's Heart star 152
- used by women and men 1079
- what old men say to the rain 852
- what people say to the north wind 647
- what people say to the rain 815
- what the people say to make it fall 811
- what the people say to the ||kerri or locust bird 657
- wind, weather and springbok hunting 701
- windmaking and springbok hunting 647
- |han≠kass'o's grandfather Tsatsi's to the rain 852
- |han≠kass'o's step-grandmother, Ttuai-an, calls out to the stars 880

addressing
- and calling the herd 706
- doings of the springbok and springbok hunting 706

adornment
- and protection against rain 377
- as protection from the rain and lightning 378
- beads 801
- by maidens 378
- chain 806
- how maidens paint young men 378
- identified by |han≠kass'o in rock painting copy no. 2 801
- jewellery 801, 806
- made of bone 806
- of 'Har River Bushmen' 806
- of men's backs, women's cheeks and karosses 377
- of the 'Mountain Bushmen' 806
- of young men 378
- of young men by maidens 377
- ornament 806
- painting with ||ka or 'rooi klip' 377
- the !k'anni, an ornament worn by men and women 841
- thong 806
- with ||hara and tto 711
- worn by groups of people 801
- |han≠kass'o's description of in rock painting copy no. 5 806

adults
- do not eat fish 903
- do not eat little birds and mice 903
- do not eat pigs 903
- food eaten and avoided by 903

African ground weevil
- ceremony performed with 792
- or the !nu !nurussi or Brachycerus 792
- used to heal a sick child 792

afternoon
- 'It is afternoon's mouth' 936
- 'It is the side of afternoon' 936
- and greetings among the |xam 936

Agama lizard
- !kau 678
- !kau or !khau 768
- !khau 905
- !khau or !kau 691, 696, 698
- !khau or kochelman 613
- and the !kain who snatched off the hair of the Ostrich's head 905
- broken in two by the mountain 696
- his journey to a pool in the red sandhills 697
- or !khau 906
- remarks by |han≠kass'o on the story of the death of the !khau 697
- song of 906
- song of the !khau's child 691
- the !khau carried off by a Lion 768
- the !khau lizard and the rain–clouds 613
- the !khau or !kau 697
- the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food 678
- the death of the !khau 696
- the kochelman 696, 697, 698
- the Lizard, the Mice and |kaggen 906
- the occasion upon which the story of the !khau was related to |han≠kass'o by his mother 698
- the song of the Agama lizard 906
- who takes the !kain's head's hair 905
- |xam names of 678

Aliwal North
- four |xam from at Breakwater Convict Station 1118

alligators
- and Da's capture and the death of his parents 1116
- and the death of the children put into the water by the Makoba 1116
- crocodiles 1116

Amsterdam Battery
- words and sentences given by xu gwai there 573

ancestors
- and how Xaa-ttin asked the dead magician !nuin-|kui-ten for rain 456
- and the apparition seen by Dia!kwain and his people when returning from his wife's funeral 532
- and what happens after death 532
- are dreamed of 854
- concerning apparitions 532
- dead sorcerers or rainmakers 456
- life after death 854
- old people 854
- spirit–-people 854
- Xaa-ttin prays to his for rain 456

anger
- given by |han≠kass'o 684
- |xam expressions for 684

angry actions
- and the fights of |kaggen 88
- foolishness 88
- of the 'grown-up person' 88
- the monster ||khwai-hemm's speech and 88
- understanding 88
- wisdom 88
- |kaggen's 88

angry man
- and |kaggen and Great Tortoise 212

animal
- !kun name of 1070, 1087
- about the porcupine 412
- accounting for the appearance of the korhaan 405
- and why the chameleon must not be killed 356
- avoiding eating the porcupine's neck 412
- called the dzana 1087
- calls imitated in the ≠gebbi-ggu 559
- hair and parts used in tools made by the |xam 57
- imitating 705
- names of body parts given by |han≠kass'o 920
- noises of 705
- or bird 1087
- rain's things 356
- springbok ewes and their lambs' cries 705
- the |no eaten and respected by the !kun 1070

animal clicks
- and ways of speaking |xam 326

animals
- !kun names of 964, 998, 1005, 1045, 1063, 1073
- !kun names of, that |xue becomes 1033
- 'angry folk' 262
- 'thoroughly' die 114
- -spirit 1102
- a description of 794
- a snake found near a grave 1101
- accounting for appearance of 45
- accounting for appearance of the hyena's back parts 401
- accounting for behaviour of 45
- accounting for nature, habits and appearance of 256
- accounting for the appearance of the ostrich 406
- accounting for the appearance of the porcupine 452
- accounting for the appearance, nature and habits of baboons 555
- accounting for the habits and appearance of hares 464
- accounting for the nature and habits of quaggas and baboons 540
- accounting for the porcupine's quills and appearance 453
- accounting for the roar of the lion 406
- accounting for their behaviour and appearance 892
- and 'Boers' 158
- and 'great hole's' things 262
- and Anteater's laws 149, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 198, 199, 200
- and Day's Heart 45
- and Day's Heart star's discourse 262, 266
- and Day's Heart star's discourses 256
- and explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1 513
- and healing 794
- and how an old woman asked a chameleon for rain 355
- and insects 964
- and Moon and Hare story 464
- and Rainmaking 125
- and remarks concerning copies of Bushman pictures nos. I-XXIV 578
- and story of Hyena 189
- and story of Jackal 190
- and story of Silver Jackal 191
- and story of Strandwolf and Aardwolf 192
- and swallows 521
- and the Anteater, the young Springbok, the Lynx and the Partridge 892
- and the Baboons who ate human beings 555
- and the brother of the maiden taken up in a whirlwind who became the Porcupine 453
- and the Early Race 555
- and the game once tame: why it grew wild 490
- and the Moon and the little Hare 66
- and the rain in !kun country 1066
- and the story of the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- and the story of the Ratel and the Waterskilpad 403
- and what people eat and wear 200
- and |xue 1045
- and ||kum'm or rain-clouds 1066
- Baboons and Quagga are people 540
- baboons and the ≠gebbi-ggu 541
- beasts of prey 260, 262
- calls of imitated in the singing of the ≠gebbi-ggu 561
- cobra 740
- death and respect for certain 1101
- death and resurrection of 66
- death of 114
- description of 158
- descriptions of 964, 1063
- diet of 45
- diets of 266
- doings of 266
- Dutch names of 158
- eaten 794
- eaten !nanni and Tamme's country 1000
- eaten and avoided by the !kun 996
- eaten as food 66, 1063
- eaten by !kun men 956
- eaten by !nanni's and Tamme's people 956
- eaten by people 200
- eaten by peoples of Damaraland 951
- eaten by the !kun 951, 956, 975, 1005, 1063
- eating hyena and lion 996
- eating of 158
- edible 964
- eggs 163
- found in !kun country 964
- found in !nanni and Tamme's country 1005
- found in Bushmanland 794
- found in |han≠kass'o's country 794
- found near graves 1101
- game 158
- girls and youths must avoid the rain's things 411
- given by !nanni and Tamme 922
- given by |han≠kass'o 576, 671, 795, 922
- given by |han≠kass'o at the SA Museum 608
- given by |han≠kass'o at the South African Museum 651
- great water tortoise 740
- habits and diet of 1005
- habits of 158, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192
- how the porcupine came by the quills on its back and neck 452
- hunting 163
- hunting behaviour of 45
- hunting of 158
- hunting, preparing and eating ostrich, 'chiansbok', springbok, khoran, hare and jackal 163
- in the Katkop dialect 107
- Jan Plat's aunt Natta sang the ≠gebbi-ggu 561
- lions 260
- magic things 521
- marriage of 45, 197, 198, 199
- marry own kind 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 198, 199
- more about |xue 1033
- must marry their own kind 256
- names and descriptions of, given by |han≠kass'o 1127
- names of 154, 158, 576, 608, 651, 671, 790, 795, 922, 951, 996
- names of given at SA Museum 107, 145, 181
- names of given by !nanni and Tamme 1000
- names of given by !nanni and Tamme at SA Museum 949
- names of given by ≠kasin 333
- names of in |xam and Koranna 107
- names of, given by |a!kunta in the SA Museum 31
- nature and habits of 198, 199, 200
- of the dead 1101, 1102
- poisonous 158, 964
- puffadder 740
- Rain animals 125
- respected by the !kun and not eaten 975
- skins of fox, elephant, springbok used for making veldskoen 8
- skins of, worn by !kun men 998
- sleeping habits 158
- speech of 66
- spirit-animals 1101
- spirit-animals are found near graves 1102
- spirit-antelope 1101
- spirit-snake 1101, 1102
- that are 'wind's things' 234, 235
- that are different 260
- that are feared 740
- that are handsome 262
- that are to be eaten must not be played with or taken as pets 698
- that are wild 234, 235, 236
- that can talk 226
- that have 'thoughts' 226
- that live in the Orange River and kill the |xam there 513
- that stand upright like men 226
- the 'other' names given to anteater, springbok, ostrich, eland, hartebeest 868
- the Anteater's laws 197
- the Anteater, Springbok and Lynx 188, 197
- the appearance of 262
- the doings of 226
- the doings of lynx, the ||kaitchi, wild dog, vulture, springbok, lion, crow and hyena 266
- the dzo 1045
- the eating of 154, 163
- the giving and uttering of their names 868
- the habits of cattle 579
- the healing of 794
- the hunting of by the |xam 45
- the Jackal's speech 266
- the Korhaan marries his elder sister 199
- the Lion and the Ostrich's fight over the ≠gebbi-ggu 541
- the Lions and the Ostriches 406
- the Moon and the Hare and the origin of death 114
- the names of 794
- the names of different in !kun country 975
- the names of, in !kun country 956
- the names used by different members of the group 868
- the nature and habits of 197, 262
- the nature and habits of various 266
- the occasion upon which the story of the !khau was related to |han≠kass'o by his mother 698
- the origin of the hare's 'mouth-scar' or hare-lip 464
- the preparation and cooking of 964
- the rain's 740
- the rain's things 355, 452, 453, 521, 794
- the rain's things or !khoa ka ||kerri-ssi !kau 578, 580, 581, 582
- the Rain-bull 125
- the understanding and foolishness of 226
- the uses for 794
- the Water cow 125
- the water tortoise, or !khou 582
- the |khuken-|u |unu or caterpillar 581
- the |numa 1045
- their different names 868
- their doings and the Anteater's curse 892
- their habits, diet and marriages 149
- tortoise 740
- tortoise, puffadder, porcupine are the rain's things 411
- water's things 740
- when people became 541
- when they were people 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 540, 555
- which are 'angry' 266
- which have 'thoughts that talk' 266
- which kill people 158
- which laugh at |xue as a leopard 1062
- who think they are people 540
- why Baboons were cursed 555
- why Lions and Ostriches became animals 541
- why the baboon sounds like a man 541
- why the ratel's claws are long 403
- wild 1063
- woodpigeons, an owl, a korubo and some ||kuorres laugh at the leopard 1062
- |xam names for 964
- |xam names of 12
- |xue and his parents and child 1045
- |xue and the bam-bam, and as other things 1062
- ætiology of 45

ant larvae
- 'Bushman rice' 659, 662, 768
- about 'Bushman Rice' 299
- and the !khau carried off by a Lion 768
- and |kaggen and Koro-tuiten 659
- eaten by |xam 659
- or 'Bushman rice' 320
- the !khau digs for 768
- the digging out of 662
- what the 'Bushman rice' does when the ||xo hai stars come out 320

Anteater
- accounting for the nature and habits of the anteater 892
- and Anteater's laws 198
- and Lynx 149, 408
- and Lynx, Partridge and Springbok 373
- and Springbok and Lynx 197
- and the young Springbok, the Lynx and the Partridge 892
- antbear 188
- before its laws beasts of prey were people 763
- buries people alive, collapsing earth 408
- curses and is cursed by the Lynx 892
- deceives the foolish Springbok mother 892
- digs 'Bushman rice' 373
- enters earth 373
- follows underground 408
- gets heartsore when listening to !kummi 408
- goes into earth 408
- goes under the ground 892
- her curse 892
- her hole 892
- her messages 198
- is caught by the Lynx 892
- is killed by Lynx 373
- its curse 763
- its laws 197, 763
- its Lynx is stolen 408
- laws of 149
- laws regarding the habits, diet and marriage of animals 149
- married elder brother 198
- rescues Lynx 408
- sayings of 149
- steals Springbok child 197
- steals young Springbok 373
- the Anteater's laws 188
- the Anteater's story 373
- the Anteater, Springbok and Lynx 188
- the doings of 373
- the Lynx is her 'heart's child' or pet 408
- the story of the Lynx and the Anteater 408
- wants a female Springbok child 892
- will go at night 892

anteater
- 'fights along' 738
- and the porcupine's hole 738
- burrows like a scorpion spider 738
- its habits and actions 738
- its hole becomes the porcupine's 738
- its method of making its hole 738
- its other name 868

Anteater's laws
- accounting for appearance of Korhaan 199
- and Korhaan burnt in fire 199
- and story of Hyena 189
- and story of Jackal 190
- and story of Silver Jackal 191
- and story of Strandwolf and Aardwolf 192
- and the Anteater's curse 763
- and what people eat and wear 200
- beasts of prey were once people 763
- regarding the habits, diet and marriage of animals 149
- the Anteater, Springbok and Lynx 188, 197
- the habits, marriages and diet of all animals 198
- the Korhaan marries his elder sister 199
- |a!kunta's version 149
- ||kabbo's second version 198

Anteater’s Laws
- 'the Knorhaan who married his sister' 405
- the story of the Kwa-kkwara 405

antelope
- a !kun song about 969
- a spirit-antelope 1101
- and spirits of the dead 1101
- is not killed when near a grave 1101
- not a mere antelope 1101
- that is feared 1101
- the song of the mother of the little buck 969

Antelope
- and the creation of the Bushmen 1092
- and the Hare and |xue 1092
- the Hare throws them into a forest country for the Bushmen to snare and eat 1092
- the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman 1092
- they created themselves 1092

Anthing
- and the names of |xam who went with him to the Cape in 1863 30
- names of |xam who went with him to the Cape 45

ants
- and the song of the ||ku 953
- eaten by the ||ku 953

ant–larvae
- 'Bushman rice' 673
- eaten by the |kitten-|kitten bird 673

apparition
- accounting for the appearance of 532
- and death 532
- and Dia!kwain 532
- and sorcerers 532
- appears when sorcerers carry person quite away 532
- does not want to go away and leave people 532
- is a thing which is different 532
- is the different part of a person 532
- is the part that thinks of people 532
- its outer skin looks at people 532
- lion preceded by, which resembles a real lion 626
- of a child 532
- on the salt pan 532
- or ghost 532
- resembles a person 532
- seen after Dia!kwain's wife's funeral 532
- seen by Mansse 532
- seen by ||kabbo 88
- takes off its skin 532
- teachings about 532
- that appears before the lion does 626
- the appearance of 532
- the coming of lion 626
- the forms it takes 532
- the spectre-lion 88
- wants to be seen 532
- when the lion's head comes into sight 626
- when they appear 532
- which resembled Dia!kwain's wife 532
- |xam beliefs about 532

apron
- the dream's 1002

armpit
- and a note on the First Bushmen 297
- and the creation of the Sun 297
- children are sent to throw the sleeping Sun into the sky 206
- of the Moon 179
- of the Sun 297
- Sun's 37, 206
- |kaggen and the Moon 37

arrow
- a reed used in the making of 588
- actions with one with which an eland has been shot 475
- and !kun treatment of thieves 1082
- and how the Ichneumon discovered what |kaggen did with the honey 351
- and Ssa ka Kumm 475
- and the hunter who stepped on his own that was poisoned 921
- and the man's accident while hunting gemsbok 921
- and the manner in which people 'twirling kindle fire' 882
- and the |kwae substance used for securing arrowheads 589
- and ||kuanni juice 589
- arrowhead 589
- arrowheads 588
- baboons are ashamed of holding 'girl's arrows' 548
- baboons shoot back one fired at them 548
- burial and avenging a death 1114
- called |nu'bbo 1080
- feathered, and poison 661
- for shooting springbok 588
- invisible 720
- its head 588
- its shaft is divided into two sticks and used to make fire 882
- killing a wife with a poisoned and wooden one 1080
- looks like a little knife 588
- making of poisons for 1053
- name of 1080
- of the sorcerer, who is like a lion 720
- poison gathered and prepared by the !kun 1053
- poison smeared on its head 347
- poisoned 588, 661
- poisoned used for shooting game 347
- poisons used by the !kun 1053
- preventing baboons from trying to shoot people 548
- sorcerer's 720
- that bewitches 720
- that causes illness and death 720
- the 'snoring' out of an 720
- the adhesive substance called |kwae used in arrowmaking 589
- the customs of |kaggen's 351
- the different parts of 588
- the making of 588
- the Mason Wasp, or !gabbaken-!gabbaken, shoots his wife with one intended for the Hare 676
- the mixing of poison for 347
- the name of an 661
- the name of one used to shoot thieves 1082
- the use of an 661
- the |nu'bbo 1082
- used by the !kun for shooting game 1053
- used for hunting springbok 661
- used to shoot 'good–looking' people 720
- |kaggen and !goe !kweitentu 38
- |kaggen's comes back at him 221
- |kaggen's turn on him and cheat him 38
- |uma relates the death of one of his relatives who was killed by one 1114
- |xam names for the parts of 588
- |xue and his mother and father 1038
- |xue and his parents and child 1045
- |xue's child shoots him in the eye 1045
- |xue's father shoots him with 1038
- |xue's father-in-law shoots |xue's father with one, killing him 1045

arrowhead
- and witteklip 588
- for shooting springbok 588
- made of iron 588
- made of stone 588
- the making of 588
- the stone used to make 588

arrowheads
- and arrowmaking 589
- the adhesive substance called |kwae used for securing 589

arrows
- !kun names of different 1041
- 'missing the game' results in 'when we shoot our death' 708
- 'possessing' 706
- an exchange of poison 309
- and !nanna-sse 707, 709
- and 'missing the game' 707
- and feathers 851
- and reeds 851
- and Ssho |oa 309
- and the actions of the springbok 701
- and the use of a whetstone for polishing the arrow-head 851
- and the use of fire 851
- and the use of ostrich feathers 918
- and the use of roots of ostrich wing feathers 919
- and the use of sinews, or !nui 851
- and the use of the !kui, or digging-stick stone 851
- and the wounds they make 250
- and unsuccessful springbok hunting after the death of a companion 716
- another man takes a dead man's arrows 993
- are 'beasts of prey' 701
- are marked with |kwae and tto 850
- are placed on a bush 851
- arrow-making 851
- different kinds of 250
- doings of the springbok and springbok hunting 706
- exchange of 707
- exhausting when hunting springbok 706
- for shooting gemsbok and ostrich have a barblet 919
- for shooting springbok have no barblet 919
- for springbok are clean and handsome 919
- gemsbok's 919
- good and bad 701
- marked for recognition and identification 850
- methods of shooting 801
- names for the different parts of 851
- of sorcerers 717
- ostrich's 919
- places to shoot springbok on their bodies 706
- poisoned 851
- precautions taken with those that are poisoned 851
- rituals performed with 716
- rock painting copy no. 2 801
- sharpening the head 851
- shooting with poisoned 707
- shot springbok try and dislodge 706
- smoking them with buchu 716
- sorcerers shoot with invisible 717
- that 'miss' 701
- that bewitch people 717
- that cause illness, pain and weariness 717
- that fly 'nicely' 701
- that miss 716
- the 'arrow's mouth' 851
- the 'snoring' out of 717
- the 'working' or making of 851
- the barblets used to catch on the flesh, or ||kuken 918
- the barblets, or ||kuken used to catch on the animal's flesh 919
- the cutting and attaching of the feathers for 851
- the death of !nanni's uncle 1041
- the dividing, shaping and straightening of the reeds 851
- the implements used to make 851
- the making of 339, 918, 919
- the marking of 850
- the name of a good arrow 701
- the name of one that has no poison 919
- the name of the head is !gaura 851
- the name of the shaft is |ßkauro 851
- the number used to hunt springbok 647
- the poisoning of 851, 918, 919
- the rubbing of the reed shaft with |kuai juice 851
- the smoking and colouring of the shaft 851
- the springbok's are magic and invisible 709
- the stones used in making of 339
- the wounds caused by 717
- used for shooting springbok in the wind 647
- used to shoot springbok 850
- ways of addressing 701
- which enter the skin and cause illness 709
- which will miss the game 708
- wind, weather and springbok hunting 701
- windmaking and springbok hunting 647
- ||kho is put in the arrow's mouth 851
- ||kurru, or ||kutten-||kutten used in making 339

artefacts
- in |kaggen and !goe !kweitentu 38
- making of 38
- |xam cooking implements 38

ash
- and creation of Milky Way 285
- becomes Milky Way 285
- the girl who made the Milky Way by throwing them into the sky 285
- wood ash 285

ashes
- and !kun customs at death 983
- and Tamme's father's aching heart 983
- sleeping in 983
- Tamme's father becomes white with 983
- Tamme's father slept there 983

astronomy
- and the |xam 108
- of the |xam 128
- of |xam 366
- the names of stars given by ≠kasin and Dia!kwain 366
- |xam names of stars, constellations and planets 128

Auma
- a 'Hottentot' 946
- his other names 946
- his personal history 946
- in the service of Mr Conrath 946
- names of his relations 946
- Philip, or Jaco'bama 946
- words and sentences given by 946

avoidance
- of certain foods by adults 903
- of places where jackals and hyenas have passed water 896
- of saying the lion's name 1008
- of saying the lion's name at night 829

baboon
- act like people 540
- and death 553
- and presentiment 553
- and the illnesses of people 553
- and the ≠gebbi-ggu 541
- Baboon taught people the ≠gebbi-ggu 541
- Baboons and Quagga are people 540
- calls a person's name 550
- calls the ≠gebbi-ggu 541
- can tell when death threatens 553
- cuts made on the bow when one has been killed 545
- does not feel pain 553
- does not get ill 553
- does not want to die 553
- ensuring its 'eye hollow' leaves the bow 545
- feels its body 553
- is a thing which can die 553
- its 'eye hollow' in the bow 545
- its actions 545
- its actions are like a person's 545
- its bad influence, actions or curse 545
- its curse on the killing bow 545
- its death brings bad influence 545
- its nature and habits 550, 553
- its Ssho |oa and hair is used as a charm against illness 553
- keeps Ssho |oa in its cheek 553
- knows our names 550
- knows things 550
- knows when danger approaches 553
- lives long 553
- makes 'clouds' like a man's when killed 545
- passing it on the hunting-ground 550
- protects people from illness 553
- removing its 'actions' from a bow 545
- severe illness kills it 553
- smell like people 540
- sounds like a person 541
- Ssho |oa tells its body things 553
- tells others about the person passing by 550
- the death of 553
- the hunting of 545
- the marks made on the bow are the baboon's 'teeth' 545
- the treatment of the bow used to kill one 545
- their appearance, nature and habits 540
- their organs are like the quagga's 540
- their parts resemble a person's 540
- they and the quagga were formerly people 540
- think they are people 540
- understands like a man 541
- understands the speech of people 541
- was formerly a person 541
- was once a man 545
- what Dia!kwain's father told him about killing one 545
- what is said when one dies 553
- what it does when it sees a person 550
- why it understands 541

Baboon
- and the Early Race 558
- and the young girl's flesh 558
- eats the woman because she is fat 558
- fears the Quagga's greatness 558
- his mother-in-law 767
- his song to the new maiden 767
- is a 'bad man' 767
- kills the Quagga 558
- sings a song that transforms the girl into a Baboon 767
- sneezes when the girl says his name 767
- the foolish girl marries 767
- the girl says his name 767
- the name of 767
- the punishment of 558
- the woman who was killed by the Baboons 558
- was a person of the Early Race 767
- was formerly a person 558
- who ate a human being 558

baboons
- 'Berg Bushmen' eat 224
- 'Flat Bushmen' do not eat 224
- 'Hottentot boy carried off by Baboons' 7
- a description of their appearance 551
- a family of 542
- adventure of |khui- |a with a family of 542
- and a girl's things 552
- and sticks of Ssho |oa 549
- and success hunting 544
- and the early morning 544
- and women's things 548, 552
- and |khui- |a 542
- and ||xabbiten ||xabbiten 551
- are ashamed of holding 'girl's arrows' 548
- are not good people 544
- are numerous 551
- are referred to as 'hipbone' 544
- Baboons taught people the ≠gebbi-ggu 559
- dance the ≠gebbi-ggu 559
- defending a dog from 552
- defending and protecting a dog from 552
- fear a girl's dog 552
- fear guns 551
- fear white men 551
- girls make them ashamed 552
- have wives 549
- how they shoot back an arrow fired at them 548
- how they shoot people 548
- how to make them drop an arrow 548
- hunting them with dogs 552
- know the ≠gebbi-ggu 559
- know things 549
- leave a girl's dog alone 552
- making them ashamed 548, 552
- must not be answered when they speak 544
- one speaks to |khui- |a 542
- people fear saying their name 544
- raise a Koranna child 7
- resemble and imitate people 559
- should not be spoken with 544
- sing and dance the ≠gebbi-ggu 559
- sound like people 549
- speak Bushman, and have wives 549
- speak |xam 544, 549
- Ssho |oa tells them things 549
- steal a Koranna child 7
- take a Koranna child 7
- talk to people 544, 549
- that speak 542
- the eating of 224
- the hunting of 542
- the male weeps for the dead female 542
- the mother hides her baby in a rock 542
- the name of their head 551
- the nature and habits of 551
- their actions when ashamed 548
- their actions with dogs 552
- their hierarchy 551
- their name must not be spoken 544
- their nature and habits 542, 544, 548, 549, 552, 559
- throw arrows back at the hunter 548
- understand people 549
- understand people's speech 542
- understand what people are saying 544
- understand |xam 544
- use Ssho |oa 549
- want dogs to fear it 552
- want pieces of ||xabbiten ||xabbiten 551
- watch people hold the ≠gebbi-ggu 559
- what people call them to avoiding saying their name 544
- what the people say to 552
- what to say to one who wants to shoot a person 548
- will not look straight at a girl's dog 552

Baboons
- accounting for the appearance of baboons 555
- and the Early Race 555, 556
- and the son of |kaggen, and |kaggen 666
- are cursed 555
- are strangers, or 'people who are different' 666
- Baboon was cursed to be a baboon 555
- baboon was formerly a person 555
- Baboon who deceived people with human flesh 555
- Baboon who sat on hot stones 555
- Baboon's tail was burnt in a fire 555
- kill |kaggen's son 666
- play with !gaunu-tsaxau's eyeball 666
- question !gaunu-tsaxau 666
- the Baboon remembers its burning in the fire 555
- the nature and habits of baboons 555
- the punishment of 555
- the woman eaten by 556
- their language or 'special' speech 666
- who ate a human being 556
- who ate human beings 555
- who ate the Quagga woman 556
- |kaggen's war, or fight with 666

backbone
- about sorcerers 396
- and the Moon pierced by the Sun 11
- of sorcerer 396
- of the Moon 11

bag
- a man carries away the ostrich in 15
- and !kun customs at death 1049
- and !nanna-sse 707
- and dress after death 1049
- and the man who shot springbok 707
- and where Ssho |oa is found 312
- belonging to the dead Bushmen 1057
- creation of illness and death 1057
- dead man's head rests on his 1049
- for Ssho |oa 312
- made from a springbok's tail-skin 707
- made of sinew 15
- of illness 1057
- of the dead man 1049
- of the Hare 1057
- rituals for successful shooting 707
- sack 15
- springbok skin sack 45
- the Day's Heart's 45
- the Moon and the Hare and |xue 1057
- used for Ssho |oa 309
- used for ||hara and tto 711
- |xue makes Ovaherero and carries them in a small 1056
- |xue's 1036
- |xue's small 1056
- |xue's son makes Bushmen and carries them in his 1056
- |xue's son's 1056
- |xue, his father and changes 1036

bags
- , nets and names and descriptions of things worn 391
- and the creation of the Bushmen 1092
- the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman 1092
- |xue's and the Hare's 1092

band
- and a review of the parade 883
- military 883
- the people who played 883

barter
- and |han≠kass'o's explanation of rock painting copy no. 2 801
- by different groups of the |xam 801
- Tsatsi given a dog by |gappem-ttu in exchange for a kaross 745

bartering
- and ostriches 222
- for poison 338
- for tobacco 222
- of ostrich feathers 222
- with white men 222

baskets
- an ostrich bone is used for piercing 57
- and tools used by the |xam 57

Bastaards
- in |han≠kass'o's dream 831

Bastard
- 'Bastaard' 646
- all came out of one hole 1147
- and Dia!kwain's relations 117
- and Dia!kwain's wife 117
- and sneezing 215
- and the |xam 646
- and ||kabbo's personal history 215
- Bastaards' names for the |xam's places 699
- does not give food 'liberally' 646
- the name of a 646
- ||goo-ka-!kui's master is a 646

bat
- a belief about the bat and the porcupine 409
- goes along with porcupine 409
- its nature and habits 409
- people must watch it 409
- returns to hole with porcupine 409

beads
- identified by |han≠kass'o in rock painting copy no. 2 801
- made of ostrich eggshell 801
- that resemble the Caama fox's eyes 801

beast of prey
- !ko'-g !nuin-tara becomes a Lynx 862
- !nu !numma-!kuiten was formerly a 890
- 'angry folk' 262
- 'great hole's' things 262
- about the lion who carries away and kills a man and the search for the lost man 228
- actions of 424
- and Anteater's laws 198
- and Day's Heart star's discourses 262
- and sorcerers 639
- and the actions of the game 424
- and the crying of the wind 537
- and the game that takes hunters to their deaths 424
- and the lion's dream 425
- and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara 862
- and the story of the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- and Xwerri-kau's story 424
- avoidance of the name of the lion 421
- catches people in their sleep 537
- comes for people at their houses 537
- comes in strong wind 537
- doings of 262
- eating and hunting lynx 677
- fetches kills children who cry 890
- is a wind's thing 537
- is different 198
- its doings 384
- its magic powers 384
- lion is 384, 424, 425
- lynx is 677
- Lynx-mother is 262
- makes a strong wind 537
- makes people sleepy 384
- rain's clouds resemble 452
- respecting 421
- teachings about 537
- the lion 537
- the nature and habits of 537
- the strong wind hides sound of its approach 537
- the wind calls it and tells it where people are 537
- walks about for a reason 537
- walks about with the wind 537
- what parts of game should not be eaten by children 424
- |kannu the rainmaker is 639

beasts of prey
- a wind which is a 701
- about sorcerers 396
- actions of 62
- advice about leopard-hunting 483
- an arrow which is a 701
- and Day's Heart 45
- and Dia!kwain's uncle |uherre's power over ostriches 442
- and taking care while hunting 442
- and the actions of game 427
- and the actions of springbok 427
- and the Anteater's laws 763
- and the doings of the jackals 263
- and the Early Race 763
- and the Lion used as a dog 283
- and the springbok's story 427
- and those who 'walk in misfortune' 442
- and wind, weather and springbok hunting 701
- animals that are 45
- animals which are 'different' 260
- are different 283
- doings of 62
- leopard hunting and the fatal adventure of !kwai-!kwa and his companion 483
- lions and leopards 260
- lions are 283
- people fear 283
- sorcerers become 396, 458
- teachings about 427
- the game leads hunters to 427
- the lion 431
- the nature and habits of 442
- the owl and the black crow 431
- their nature and habits 431
- their power over the Sun 442
- wait for hunters to return home 442
- walk at night 62
- warnings of 431
- were once people 763
- why they became animals 763

beating
- and presentiments of things that are going to happen 287
- Dia!kwain beats his children 119
- of !goe !kweitentu 38
- of the flesh which tells the |xam things 287
- of |kaggen 38
- |kaggen and !goe !kweitentu 38

beating a stone on the ground
- !nanni's paternal grandmother did this 1010
- and !nanni's maternal grandmother 1010
- and praying for rain 1010
- makes the lightning or rain go into the water 1010
- makes the rain fall 1010
- protects people from lightning 1010
- the women say 'Fall into the water!' 1010
- women do it but not men 1010

beating the bushes
- the stick used in 647
- windmaking and springbok hunting 647

beatings
- a description of 773
- observed by |han≠kass'o 773
- of |gui-an by her mistress, Trina de Klerck 773
- of |xam workers by white masters and mistresses 773
- received by |gui-an or Dootje 773
- with reeds 773

beds
- and Heron's song 85
- and the white splinter used for scraping skins 85
- made from springbok skin 85
- of the |xam 85
- scraping skins for 85

bee
- !guonni is at the bee's hole 519
- and !gaunu 519
- and Crow's story 380
- healing a spider bite with its honey 9
- its urine, water is sweet 380

bees
- !goin-!goin used for calling bees and finding honey 598
- and honey 272
- and Ichneumon's discourse 272
- and reasons for colour of various animals 392
- and seasons 272
- and |kaggen 392
- expressions for the flight of 685
- make honey 392
- regarding the expressions |guobba ||a, and !kwiten ||a 685
- the food they make 392

Beetle
- !ga ka Kkumm or the Frog's story 928
- and the river bed 753
- and |kaggen and the Mice 753
- called dju 928
- flies and walks 928
- goes into the Frog's vomit 928
- her smell frightens away !kuommain |ka ||kau 928
- is killed by the Striped Mouse 753
- its fights with the Mouse 753
- kills the Mice 753
- resembles |kaggen 928
- smells like vomit 928
- wants to marry !kuommain |ka ||kau 928
- was formerly a man of the Early Race 753
- |kaggen's dream of 753

behaviour
- and anger 547
- and cursing 547
- and disagreeable actions 547
- bad 547
- customs relating to 547
- expressions relating to 547
- what is said when actions are disagreeable or 'not nice' 547

Berg Bushmen
- eat baboons 224
- live in mountains 224
- their diet 224

berries
- and preparation of the springbok's ears for dancing rattles 600
- called ||kerri put in dried springbok's ears 600

berry
- and Heron's song 85
- Krieboom 85

bewitching
- and the Lion star 164
- by new maiden 164

bird
- !kain who snatched off the hair of the Ostrich's head, and put it on his own 905
- !kun name of 979, 1038, 1062, 1087
- !kun names of 1039
- !kwai !kwai resembles the Duiker 615
- a !kun song about 978, 979
- a description of 1084, 1085, 1089
- a parrot seen at Mowbray and commented on by |han≠kass'o 891
- and Anteater's laws 198
- and stars and death 531
- and the |gwai who killed his sister-in-law, and was killed by his brother-in-law 838
- and throwing stones at locusts 915
- called !gauka 1038
- called !kuara 1039
- called Goba-|nua-me or 'Makoba-boils me' 1084
- called the dzana 1087
- called the Hamerkop tells news of death 531
- called the sauko 966
- called |nu'she 1085
- called ||kanna-tatta 1039
- called ≠kagara, who was formerly a man 900
- called ≠xo gure 1089
- calls at sunrise 1085
- Day's Heart and 45
- eaten by Tamme 1089
- eaten by the !kun 1089
- eaten by the Makoba 1084
- found in !kun country 952, 966
- found in Bushmanland 723
- found in the Makoba country 1084
- how sorcerers sometimes assume the form of a jackal or of a bird 455
- is eaten by !kun children 1085
- is feared by lizards 1085
- its behaviour when it is a sorcerer 455
- its call 1084
- its cry 1084
- its cry or call 1085
- name of 562
- or animal 1087
- pau 198
- song of the Ngogan-a 971
- song of the sho sho 952
- song of the ≠ne≠nebbi, or woodpigeon 965
- sorcerers watch over their people in its form 455
- that eats small buck 966
- that eats the locust 631
- the !kain, formerly a person of the Early Race 905
- the !ke tsa'ba 973
- the !koroken !koroken or the telephonus 562
- the !kuerre-!kuerre 629
- the !kun name for 1084, 1085, 1089
- the !kwai !kwai 615, 765
- the !kwai !kwai, |kaggen and the children 615
- the !na !na'rishe 978
- the appearance of 1084, 1085, 1089
- the appearance of the ≠kagara 900
- the appearance of the ≠kainyatara 898
- the bam-bam 1062
- the behaviour and habits of 1084, 1085
- the explanation of its name 1084
- the Hamerkop or Scopus umbretta 531
- the Koro-tuiten 659
- the kwa kwara, bustard, black koran, korhaan malkop or Eupodotis afra 605, 606
- the locust bird 631, 657, 915
- the locust bird or the ||kerri 784
- the locust bird or ||kerri 916
- the Ngogan-a 971
- the owl 636
- the partridge or !kabbi 586
- the sho sho 952
- the son of the Wind 644
- the son of the Wind became 645
- the Wind became 645
- the Wind takes its form 646
- the |harriten or locust bird 723
- the |ka kau 587
- the |kain |kain 614
- the |kain |kain, the girls and |kaggen 614
- the |kitten-|kitten 673
- the ||gani, a kind of woodpigeon 979
- the ||kerri or locust bird and locusts 641
- the ||kerri, which eats locusts; and locust-hunting 657
- the ≠kainyatara 898
- the ≠nerru 885, 886
- ttu ttutten 838
- what the owl says 636
- Wind became 644
- wise people can tell when a bird is a sorcerer 455
- |gwai's cap resembles its nest 838
- |kaggen and Koro-tuiten 659
- |konnin 45
- |xue and his father 1039
- |xue and his mother and father 1038
- |xue and the bam-bam, and as other things 1062
- ||goo-ka-!kui threw stones at the Wind in its form 646
- ≠nerru and her husband 885

birds
- !gauru 120
- !kagen 120
- !kun names of 1004, 1077
- 'Boer' names of 120
- accounting for appearance of 120
- and death 930
- and the rain, wind and clouds 1077
- await the death of a thing 930
- called the |nu'she and the tt' e 1077
- calls of 1077
- Cape Dutch names of 120
- crows 120
- crows and secretary birds 609
- descriptions of 1004, 1077
- eaten by !kun men 956
- eaten by !nanni's and Tamme's people 956
- eaten by the !kun 956
- found in !kun country 1077
- found in !nanni's and Tamme's country 1004
- found in Bushmanland 760, 839
- found in |han≠kass'o's country 839
- laugh at |xue 1075
- markings of 120
- more about |xue 1075
- names of 120, 143
- names of different crows 609
- names of eggs 143
- names of, that |xue becomes 1017
- nests made by 839
- owl 1075
- sheep fat tied around throats of 120
- sitopposite the dying thing 930
- such as crows wait for people to die 930
- the actions of the owl and the black crow warn of the approach of lions 431
- the diet of 1077
- the habits and behaviour of 1077
- the names of, in !kun country 956
- the owl and the black crow 431
- the plants and trees they eat 1004
- the sending of the Crows 120
- the tt' e eat !naxane 1077
- the ttu ttutten 839
- their actions and habits 1004
- their eggs 1004
- vultures 120
- why crows have white patches on neck or breast 120
- |xam names of crows 120
- |xue fears 1075
- |xuru 120

bite
- healing one with honey 9
- spider 9

Biting-Torn-Away
- advises her husband on the doings of the Lioness 835
- and her husband, the young man 835
- became a grown-up girl 835
- helps kill her adopted mother, the Lioness 835
- her grandmothers are !kwa-!kwa and !kwa-kau 835
- is clever 835
- is the Lioness's adopted daughter 835
- or Tssi-!kuara |hin, her story 835
- protects her husband from the Lioness 835
- the Lioness killed her mother 835
- was raised and nourished by the Lioness 835

black
- and |kaggen takes away the Tick's sheep 293
- folk who are 293
- the Ticks are 293

Black Crow
- and Day's Heart's child 45
- and the thong that breaks 772
- and the two Lions, the Lizards, the Blue Crane and the Rhebok 772
- calling Jackal 49
- Day's Heart and 45
- gets angry 49
- has no fire 45
- her house of sticks 772
- house of 45
- is a person of the Early Race 772
- she heats stones 772
- she saves the Rhebok |ke-dde 772

black crows
- and Ichneumon's discourse 272

black man
- 'Kafir police' 27
- 'Kafir' 27, 215, 871
- about various people known by |han≠kass'o 871
- and sneezing 215
- and the death of ||khwih and his companions 871
- and ||kabbo on the train 29
- and ||kabbo's capture and journey to Cape town 27
- and ||kabbo's personal history 215
- appearance of 29
- asks ||kabbo where he comes from 29
- called Meintjes 871
- is 'ugly' 29
- who killed ||khwih 871
- ||kabbo in the train 29
- ||kabbo's description of 29

black men
- 'Kafir' 166, 174
- 'Kafirs' 400, 762, 779, 806, 831
- and 'a man who wants to kill us' 400
- and harm done to Dia!kwain's throat 400
- and the sorceress who snored Dia!kwain's throat 400
- and |xam 400
- are like ashes 806
- blades used in their assegais 762
- capture ||kabbo 166, 174
- in rock painting copies no. 5 and 6 806
- in |han≠kass'o's country 762
- in |han≠kass'o's dream 831
- poisoned Dia!kwain's aunt 400
- running in fear 806
- the appearance of 806
- the man who stole Dia!kwain's mother's spoons 400
- the names of |xam killed by 779
- their nails are poisonous 400
- wanted to kill Dia!kwain's family 400
- weapons used by 762
- who have cuts 806
- who killed !kauru-ttin 779
- ||kabbo's account of being caught and brought to the Breakwater 166
- ||kabbo's account of being caught and jailed 174

black people
- 'Kaal Kafirs' 860
- 'Kafirs' 810, 860
- and the 'wind's dogs' 810
- and the |xam 860
- carry things on their heads 810
- eat locusts 860
- have dogs 810
- how they make nets 860
- kaal, or have no trousers 860
- kaal, or naked 860
- living north of the Orange River 860
- living on the other side of the Orange River 860
- pictured in rock painting copy no. 9 810
- the food they eat 860
- their habits and customs 860
- use a net to collect locusts 860

blackness
- and the Bushman and !koranna 1137

Blaitje Snell
- his personal history 304
- the names of his relations 304

blank page
- in Bleek's Book XXIII 84

blank pages 51
- 51
- in Bleek's Book X 53
- in Bleek's Book XIV 61, 63
- in Bleek's Book XIX 78
- in Bleek's Book XV 67
- in Bleek's Book XVIII 75
- in Bleek's Book XXIV 95, 98, 100, 103
- in Bleek's Book XXV 112

blood
- 'lies down' 525
- 'separating lies down' 525
- -letting and the !kun 1071
- a speech made by the sorceress !kwarra-an 397
- about sorcerers 396
- and !nanna-sse 707
- and a beating felt in the flesh which tells the |xam things 287
- and earthquakes 525
- and rain-making 393
- and sneezing 530
- and sneezing illness 397
- and sorcerers 525
- and the early morning 525
- and the Moon 468
- and the ||ken dance 530
- and war 467
- creates the mist 467
- from the nose of a sorcerer 493
- healers bleed from the nose when doing the ||ken dance 530
- healing with 397
- its scent 397
- lies above in the skin 525
- must be smelt so it will enter the 'gorge' 530
- of the waterbull 393
- of the |xam 467
- on the bushes 707
- poured into the springbok stomach 707
- rituals performed with for successful hunting after the death of a companion 716
- smoking, and anger 467
- sorcerers and internal bleeding 396
- spilt 707
- springbok's 707
- tapping and presentiments of things that are going to happen 287
- that 'sits' on the ground 707
- the hunter's burned in buchu 716
- the hunter's is sucked 716
- the Moon is red with that of the game 468
- the nosebleed of the sorcerer 530
- the sorcerer's nosebleed 493
- the sorcerer's snoring work 493
- the sorceress's nose-bleed 397
- the tale of a wise person or sorceress 397
- the waterbull's blood is water 393
- when full or 'abundant' 525

blood clot
- doings of the springbok and springbok hunting 706
- making a good wound 706
- making the springbok 'lie down' and die 706
- the 'wound's clot' 706

bloodletting
- a time of 'illness' 1071
- and markings, scarification or cutting 1071
- and men 1071
- and the !kun 1071
- and women 1071
- by the !kun 1071
- customs relating to 1071
- methods 1071
- the blood is caught in a horn cup 1071
- the objects or vessels used for 1071
- what the men eat 1071
- wives cut their husbands 1071

Blue Crane
- !ga ka Kkumm or the Frog's story 928
- !ko 85
- !yoa-ka-ttu, who cuts off her head and shoulders 888
- and !yoa-ka-ttu and the girls 888
- and Early Race 85
- and Heron's song 85
- and rain 275
- and the First Bushmen 85
- and the Frog's story 925
- and the girls 99, 99
- and the Quagga who was poisoned by her husband 894
- and the two Lions !gu and !haue ta ≠hou 926
- and the two Lions, !gu and !haue ta ≠hou 925
- and the two Lions, the Lizards, the Rhebok and the Black Crow 772
- and two Lions: pointers to the Southern Cross 185
- anger of 45
- appearance of 85
- Black Crow calling Jackal 49
- calls her brother ||kann-doro 925
- calls out 'I am coming!' to !yoa-ka-ttu 888
- carries Krieboom berries on its shoulder 85
- Day's Heart and 45
- does not die 888
- grows into a grown-up woman 925
- her body parts rejoin 888
- her bone is called !kamm 925
- her child 185
- her speech 275
- Heron 99
- house of 45
- how !gu tricks !haue ta ≠hou into tasting her flesh and eating her 926
- how she vainly sought for !kuommain |ka ||kau and was killed and eaten by the Lions 925
- is a person of the Early Race 772, 888
- is an old woman and accompanies the girls 888
- is one of the young He-Dog's people 894
- is the Frog's 'mate' 928
- is the wife of the !khau lizard 772
- is |kaggen's elder sister 888
- is |kaggen's sister 99, 610, 925
- Krieboom on the shoulder of 49
- makes a hole for the Frog to vomit into 928
- name of 85
- protects and covers the girls with her body and wings 888
- resembles a splinter of stone 85
- returns to life in the water 925
- searches for the Frog's husband, !kuommain |ka ||kau 928
- she smells her brother |kaggen's odour 925
- sings its story 85
- snatches and misses !kuommain |ka ||kau 928
- song of 49, 85
- special speech of 99
- tastes the Quagga's liver 894
- the Black Crow calls the Jackal and 49
- the Blue Crane's speech 99
- walks singing 49
- was formerly a person 85
- way of speaking of 99
- who 'became bones' due to grief 925
- who was restored to life by means of one of |kaggen's bones 925
- |kaggen and |kwammana visit the Dassie's house 610
- |kaggen dresses her and prepares her things 925
- |kaggen prevents her from going into the water 925
- |kaggen rubs her with his perspiration 925

boats
- of the Makoba 985

body
- a |xam name for a part of 109
- alteration of 193
- and !kun customs at death 1049
- and actions after death 1049
- anointing or painting with ||hara and tto 711
- arrangement of the dead man's 1049
- cutting 193
- given by |han≠kass'o 630
- how that of the dead is dressed 1049
- names for parts of, and bones 630
- of the rain 591
- parts of 156
- piercing 193
- rainmaking, when the wind is in the north 591
- the parts cut and pierced 193
- the rain and the rain-bull in rock painting copy no. 8 809
- the rain's body–parts 809
- the rain's ribs 591
- words and sentences given by ≠kasin 47
- |xam names for 156
- |xam names of parts of 47

body parts
- of the rain 639, 640
- the hail is the rain's legs 640
- |kannu the rainmaker 639

body-piercing
- by the |xam 18
- ear-piercing 18

Boer
- all came out of one hole 1147
- and sneezing 215
- and |uma's capture 1112
- and ||kabbo's personal history 215
- Dutch 144, 146, 215, 1112
- Dutch man 539
- masters 1112
- names for sheep 144
- their relations with the !kun 1112
- who killed Jan Plat's brother Ruyter 539

Boers
- and Dia!kwain's mother 117
- and Dia!kwain's relations 117
- and genealogies of |xam 30
- and the family of |han≠kass'o 577
- and the sending of the Crows 120
- and the |xam 19
- and Xaa-ttin's chippings 554
- and |han≠kass'o 577
- and |han≠kass'o's personal history 577
- as farmers 30
- as masters 30
- commando 120
- Dutch 19, 55, 117, 120, 577
- kill husbands 120
- murder the |xam 120
- names of 30, 55
- personal histories of |xam 583
- take |xam children 19
- the Dutch 554, 583
- the time before they came 554
- the |xam work for 19
- their cattle 19
- who speak |xam 55
- |xam relations with 583
- |xam take cattle of 19

bone
- and the making of clay pots 823
- and the resurrection of the Blue Crane 925
- breaking with a stone 823
- how the Blue Crane vainly sought for !kuommain |ka ||kau and was killed and eaten by the Lions 925
- jewellery made of 806
- that springs from the Lion's mouth 925
- the !au or shaped rib-bone used for eating certain foods 584
- the Blue Crane's, called !kamm 925
- the cooking and eating of 823
- the working or shaping of the !au 584
- |han≠kass'o's description of in rock painting copy no. 5 806

bones
- !nanna-sse and the treatment of 707
- a description of the springboks' 710
- all are named 440
- and avoiding wounding the first finger of the right hand 713
- and avoiding wounds 713
- and hunting porcupine 729
- and success in hunting porcupine 729
- and the bone heap 729
- and the making of a needle from a springbok's foreleg 440
- and the man who shot game 707
- and the story of the new maiden who ate ostrich marrow without the knowledge of her people 482
- animal 732
- are placed on an ostrich breastbone dish 733
- are put in the ostrich breastbone dish 707
- breaking the porcupine's 729
- children must not play with 729
- from different parts of the springbok's body 707
- further details about men who hunted Lions with 759
- given to the dogs 714
- heap of 707
- how the young He-Dog poisoned and killed his wife, the Quagga 894
- made into knobkerries 759
- marrow from 707
- men who hunted Lions with 756
- of springbok 707
- of the elephant are hard 759
- of the giraffe are hard 759
- of the ostrich are soft 759
- pierce and kill the Quagga 894
- placedopposite the hut's entrance 733
- put away in the sticks of the hut 713
- respect for 713, 733
- respecting 729
- sharpened and poisoned, are placed in the Quagga's bed 894
- springbok possess magic arrows 709
- that can knock a Lion down and kill it 756
- that can knock a lion down and kill it 759
- the 'gnawing' or eating of 707
- the 'pouring' or 'emptying' of 733
- the consequences of playing with those of the springbok 709
- the eating habits of vultures 858
- the efficacy of hunting with different 756, 759
- the name of the heap of 707
- the name of the place where they are placed 707
- the placement of 707
- the placement of the 733
- the throwing away 714
- the treatment of 713, 729
- the treatment of the porcupine's 733
- the Vultures and their elder sister 858
- thigh 759
- throwing away 707
- Tsatsi's treatment of 713
- vultures leave them behind 858
- why ostrich-bones have no marrow 482
- |xam names for the springboks' 710
- |xam names of 732
- ||kabbo's family's treatment of 714
- ||kabbo's treatment of 714

boulder
- in |han≠kass'o's country 780
- that is white 780
- the name of 780

bow
- and stick of the dead man are placed in his grave 993
- consequences of playing instruments in thunderstorms 511
- Dia!kwain played his in a thunderstorm 511
- Ichneumon rebukes |kaggen 241
- making cuts on, when a baboon is killed 545
- making cuts on, when a hyena has been killed 546
- of the ghost or ||gaun-a 1113
- putting the baboon's 'teeth' on 545
- removing a hyena's curse or actions from 546
- removing the baboon's bad influence or curse from 545
- the treatment of 545, 546
- |kaggen's does not shoot 241
- |xue and the bam-bam, and as other things 1062
- |xue's breaks 1062

bow man
- and |kaggen and Great Tortoise 212

bow strings
- sinews used in making 308

bowels
- ≠nerru and her husband 885
- ≠nerru's are on her little back-kaross 885

bows
- made from Taaibosch 823
- the making of clay pots and 823
- the wood used to make 823

bowstring
- and doings of the |kaggen when the eland has been wounded 819
- striking and rainmaking 911
- struck by the !gixa or sorcerer called |kaunu 911
- |kaggen feels that of the bow that shot the eland 819

branches
- 'reversing' 859
- and sticks point to a new water-pool 859
- and sticks used to indicate direction 859
- are arranged as signs when people leave a place 859
- are put into the ground 'green top' down 859
- are stuck into the ground to point in the direction the people have gone 859
- the number used 859
- their distance apart 859

Breakwater Convict station
- and Jacob Nein 25

Breakwater Convict Station
- ' 568
- 'I come from the strong water' 568
- and four |xam from Aliwal North 1118
- and genealogies of |xam 30
- and Oud Bakkis or 'one nose' 778
- and personal history of prisoners held there 104
- and Ssu-!kui-ten-tta or Snore-White-Lying who died there 428
- and the explanation of the name Ssu-!kui-ten-tta 428
- and ||kabbo's account of being captured and brought to 166
- and ≠girri-sse 568
- at Breakwater, 17 April 1880 1118
- Breakwater hospital 489
- details about |xam prisoners taken there in 1880 1118
- hard labour 27
- Hendrik Ronebout at Breakwater hospital 489
- Jan Plat at 486
- names of |xam at 30
- people who died while |han≠kass'o was in 777
- personal histories of |xam 583
- prison 30
- prisoner's numbers 485
- prisoners' numbers 486, 487
- the 'Strong Water 568
- words and sentences given by Mkuan there 1119
- words and sentences got at 139
- work done at the 27
- |a!kunta's relations at 139
- |han≠kass'o's time in 777
- |xam at the 27
- |xam held there 583
- |xam prisoners at 485, 486, 487
- |xam prisoners' numbers 30
- |xam who died there 583
- |xam who died while |han≠kass'o was in 778
- ||kabbo's account of being caught and brought there 27
- ≠enn at 487
- ≠gerri-sse at 485
- ≠gerri-sse at Breakwater and later at Mowbray 485

Breakwater hospital
- Hendrik Ronebout at 489
- prisoners' numbers 489

breast
- in the song of the young woman as she returned home 932
- of the young woman who disobeyed her mother and fell in with the two Lions 929
- the young woman sings for her nipple to grow back 932
- the young woman sings for hers to return to the way it was 932
- the young woman's nipple is caught in the cleft of a rock 929

broken string
- and !nuin-|kui-ten 458
- and !nuin-|kui-ten who was a sorcerer or magician 458
- and the open or empty country 458
- and the rain-bull 460
- and what Xaa-ttin used to sing 460
- and Xaa-ttin's song about the death of the sorcerer !nuin-|kui-ten 459
- has gone away 460
- has left Xaa-ttin's place 460
- or thong 458, 460
- the sound of 460
- the vibration of 460

brother
- and !kun marriage customs 1078
- next, marries dead brother's widow 1078

brother-in-law
- his revenge on |gwai 838
- the |gwai who killed his sister-in-law, and was killed by his 838
- waits for |gwai behind a screen of bushes 838
- what he says to |gwai 838
- |gwai killed his sister 838

brothers
- are angry at their little sister's leanness 840
- of the Wild Dog's wife 840
- –in–law of the !gwiten who was 'niggardly' to his wife 840

brush
- 'hyena's-' 754
- 'jackal's -' 754
- a grass resembles those belonging to the Early Race 754
- a grass that resembles 754
- and tools 57
- called the !nabbe 672
- different types of brushes 754
- feather- 754
- for wiping the face 754
- from !nabbe stem 57
- from animal hair 57
- from thorn-bush 57
- from |gipp hair 57
- handle of 57
- making of 57
- name of 57
- the 'Bushman pocket-handkerchief' 672
- the making of 672
- the names of brushes 754
- the preparation of tails for 672
- the tail-hair used in 672
- the types of hair used for 672
- the use of the Driedoorn stick in 672
- used by the |xam 57
- uses of 57
- with springbok neck sinew binding 57
- |ku 57

brushes
- and mode of addressing rain 815
- made of male ostrich feathers 815
- springbok fear them 815
- used to drive springbok 815

buchu
- 'boochoo' 716
- about sorcerers 396
- and a rain story 395
- and burning blood 716
- and making the springbok 'lie down' and die 716
- and new maidens 452
- and rainmaking 395
- and recovery of sorcerer 396
- and rituals for successful hunting 716
- and springbok hunting 716
- and the actions of rain 452
- and the girl's protection of her people from the rain 411
- and the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- and the snoring out of 'harm's things' 782
- and the treatment of the rain 737
- and the young woman carried off by the Rain, in the shape of a bull 741
- and thong 395
- and work with waterbull 395
- and ≠kagara's fight with !haunu 900
- appeasing the angry rain with 737
- as protection from !haunu and his thundering 900
- as protection from the rain 900
- girls and youths must avoid the rain's things 411
- healing with 396
- its medicinal uses 396
- its smell, and sneezing 782
- rain changes people into frogs 737
- smoking arrows with 716
- the actions performed with by girls with 737
- the rain loves 737
- used by rain-sorcerer 395
- used in 'snoring' and 'sneezing' by the 'Bushman doctor', sorcerer or !gixa 782
- used to 'work' the Rain by girls 741
- ≠kagara rubs it on 900

buck
- !kun name of 1039, 1043
- a !kun song about 969
- a male |ou's horn and prayers to the moon 1043
- and !kun customs at death 1049
- and dress after death 1049
- and young moon's story 1043
- called |ou 1039, 1049, 1054, 1062
- gemsbok 806
- hartebeest 806
- in rock painting copy no. 7 806
- its horn worn by the dead man 1049
- kudu 806
- rhebok 806
- small, probably a steenbok 1049
- springbok 806
- the names given to the horns of 806
- the song of the mother of the little buck 969
- which do not have horns 806
- which have horns 806
- |ou's horn sounded by |xue 1054
- |xue and his father 1039
- |xue and the bam-bam, and as other things 1062
- |xue as !naxane and butterflies and with people who are afraid 1054

buffalo
- !kun name of 1063
- animals eaten by the !kun 1063
- |xue becomes 1023

bull
- and Rainmaking 125
- comes out of the water-pit 741
- is one of the Rain's things 741
- is the Rain's body 741
- or the xoro gwai 741
- Rain animal 125
- Rain-bull 125
- rain-bull 274
- ridden by the rainmaker 274
- the old man who makes rain 274
- the Rain's 741
- the young woman carried off by the Rain, in the shape of 741
- the young woman rides the Rain in the form of one 741
- Water-bull 125

burial
- !kun customs at 993, 999
- !kun customs relating to 1114
- !kun methods of 984
- !kun practices 984
- a description of 879
- also avenging a death 1114
- and a thorn-tree called ||'i 1114
- and customs and ritual surrounding death 250
- and death on the hunting ground 250
- and old kaross 250
- and the digging of pits 997
- and the Great hole 219
- and the making of the grave 993, 999
- and the path of the First Bushmen 219
- and the rain which washes out a dead man's footsteps 879
- methods of 1114
- methods of the |xam 250
- of !nanni's little brother 999
- of Dia!kwain's first wife 429
- of people 879
- of strangers 1114
- of the girls cursed by |kuken-|u |unu 722, 722
- of the little elephant 997
- of |kuken-|u |unu 722
- protecting the grave with bushes and stones 879
- springbok and gemsbok knew the death of Dia!kwain's wife 429
- the actions of men and women 1114
- the actions of the burial party 1114
- the actions of the relations of the deceased 1114
- the grave 1114
- the making of the grave 879
- the stick and bow are placed in the grave 993
- when the dead are buried or left lying on the ground 1114
- |kuken-|u |unu digs up the girls' bodies and eats them 722

bush
- !nabbe 57
- a white substance found on them 822
- and 'snake's saliva' 822
- and mode of addressing rain 815
- and the Moon's 'dung' 822
- and tools used by the |xam 57
- and Tsatsi's treatment of bones 713
- beating bushes and driving springbok 647
- brush-handle made from its wood 57
- screen used in springbok hunting 713
- screens 647
- settled on by locusts 657
- shelters used in springbok hunting 701
- the !kwana thorn tree or 702
- the name of 657, 681, 815
- the ||kerri: a bird which eats locusts; and locust-hunting 657
- thorn-bush 57
- used for making shelters for houses from the rain 815
- used to build houses 681
- wind, weather and springbok hunting 701
- windmaking and springbok hunting 647

bushes
- when many grow at the waterpool it is called |uha 758

bushlice
- the Ticks 293
- |kaggen takes away the Tick's sheep 293

Bushman
- and !koranna 1137
- and the blackness 1137
- why the Bushmen are without cattle 1137

Bushman doctor
- 'sneezes' out stick' 782
- 'snores' and 'sneezes' 782
- 'snores' out the lion and owl 782
- extracts things 782
- healer or sorcerer 782
- healing by 782
- known by |han≠kass'o 782
- makes a noise like an owl and a lion 782
- observed by |han≠kass'o 782
- or 'medicine man' 782
- the !gixa 782
- the doings of 782
- their 'snoring' does not lie down 782

Bushman groups
- names of different, given by Tamme 1092
- that !nanni, Tamme and |uma belong to 1092

Bushman letters
- 'speak truly' 287
- a beating of the flesh which tells the |xam things 287
- and knowing people are coming 287
- are in people's bodies 287
- at 'old wound's place' 287
- called |kumm 287
- presentiments of things that are going to happen 287

Bushman rice
- 'Bushman rice' star 320
- 'Bushman rice's star' 299
- 'maggot's houses' 768
- 'sifting' 659
- 'women's hunting' 662
- a description of 320
- about 299
- and !haken sieved by people of the Early Race in things called !yuiten 861
- and a mat 299
- and a prayer to stars Canopus and Sirius 322
- and Day's Heart 45
- and food eaten by the |xam 57
- and heated stones 299
- and rain 320
- and seasons 320
- and stars 320
- and sun and rain 299
- and the seasons 299
- and the use of the springbok-skin sack 885
- and tools used by the |xam 57
- and wind 299
- and women's hunting 317
- and women's work 299
- and |kaggen and Koro-tuiten 659
- ant larvae 299, 320, 659, 662, 768
- cocoons 768
- collected by ≠nerru and her husband 885
- digging for 57, 317, 659
- dug by men and women 662
- dusty 885
- fed to young Springbok by Anteater 373
- food eaten by the |xam 45
- implements used in its preparation 299
- is eaten as food 662
- is eaten by the |xam 654
- its 'fat' 299
- its holes 659
- its maggots or young 320
- methods of digging for 662
- names for 299
- on ≠nerru's little back-kaross 885
- resembles !haken 654
- sharing or dividing 659
- the !khau digs for 768
- the 'killing' of 299
- the digging out of 662
- the doings of 320
- the eating of 299
- the growth of 299
- the preparation of 299
- the use of the digging stick 659
- what the 'Bushman rice' does when the ||xo hai stars come out 320
- when it is dug out 662
- when its star comes 299
- women 'kill' it 317

Bushman Rice
- ant–larvae 673
- eaten by the |kitten-|kitten bird 673

Bushmanland
- and ||kabbo's intended return home 289
- names of a few places there given by ||kabbo 328
- the ground is red in 37

butterflies
- a 'doctoress' called |xu-an 'snored' |han≠kass'o 781
- and !giten 781
- are 'snored' out of a person by a healer 781
- cause illness 781
- children not to throw stones at 781

butterfly
- !kun name of 967
- or moth 967
- song of the ||noruko djo-djo 967
- |xue as !naxane and butterflies and with people who are afraid 1054

button
- and Ttai-tchuen, with a lioness who had young cubs 450
- Ttai-tchuen dazzles a lioness with 450

buttons
- are handsome 248
- given to ||kabbo by Lloyd 248

call
- of animals imitated in the ≠gebbi-ggu 561
- of ewe to its young and partridge imitated by Jan Plat's aunt Natta in the ≠gebbi-ggu 561
- of the !koroken !koroken or telephonus bird 562

calling
- and making the springbok's heart descend, or 'fall' 849
- and making the wounded springbok become faint 849
- the custom called !nana-an or calling to wounded springbok 849
- to a wounded gemsbok 849
- to a wounded ostrich 849

Calvinia
- and the personal history of Jan Plat 572
- Jan Plat leaves there with Dia!kwain 572

camelthorn tree
- the Blue Crane and the girls sit under 99

Canopus
- a description of 322
- a prayer to 322
- an address to 322
- and Sirius 321
- and the sun 322
- his grandmother Sirius 322
- or |ßko a-ggu 321
- |xam names for 321

cap
- a wild beast's 838
- and Mr Stow's picture of the dance of sorcerers 434
- made of springbok's scalp with springbok ears 803
- of the |gwai who killed his sister-in-law, and was killed by his brother-in-law 838
- that resembles the ttu ttuten's nest 838
- the sorcerer's gemsbok cap 434
- the ||ken dress 434
- worn by sorcerers in the ||ken dance 434
- worn by the springbok–sorcerer, !guerriten-dde 803
- |gwai's 838

Cape
- 'Cape white men' 1112
- |uma's and Da's journey to the Cape 1112

Cape Dutch
- see Dutch or Boer 120

capture
- of Da by the Makoba and the death of his parents 1116
- of |uma by the Makoba 1112

carrying
- children 866
- methods used by women 866
- of young babies 866

carrying things
- and binding skins together by means of a thong 810
- black people do so on their heads 810
- by men and women 810
- in nets 810
- in rock painting copy no. 9 810
- methods of 810
- the |xam do so on their bodies 810

Cat
- and Anteater's laws 198
- and Lynx 305
- and the Anteater, the young Springbok, the Lynx and the Partridge 892
- and the plot to rescue the young Springbok 892
- appearance of 88
- buries his head in ground 240
- cannot run 211
- Day's Heart child's mother resembles 262
- deceives his pursuers 305
- does not run fast 305
- does not understand 305
- doubles back 305
- fights |kaggen 211
- goes along singing 240
- his fight with |kaggen 240
- is derided by Lynx 211
- is not cunning 305, 892
- is one of the Lynx's people 892
- its nature and habits 305
- Lynx-mother is 262
- puts head in ground 211
- sings a song about Lynx 211
- sings about Lynx 240
- song of 88
- the Cat's song 305
- the monster ||khwai-hemm's speech and 88
- tricks and defeats |kaggen 240
- what the Day's Heart star says to his daughter 262

cat
- 'snoring' and 'sneezing' out of, by the 'Bushman doctor', sorcerer or !gixa 782
- is harm's or illness's thing 782
- lion 782
- wild, is not eaten by the !kun 975

caterpillar
- !kun name of 1053
- a rain's thing 581
- called Kai 1053
- called |khuken-|u |unu 581
- called |kuken-|u |unu, who was formerly a person of the Early Race 722
- diet of 724
- gathered by !nanni's people 1053
- in |kuken-|u |unu's song 722
- is 'numerous' 724
- its hair pricks people 724
- its name is 'little fine hair' 724
- the appearance of 724
- the habits and actions of 724
- the people fear 724
- the place where it is found 724
- the tiger moth caterpillar, larva of Aloa 724
- the |kuken-|u |nu 724
- used by the !kun to make poison 1053
- |kuken-|u |unu is a tiger moth, larva of Aloa 722

caterpilllars
- and ||kum'm or rain-clouds 1066
- called ||k'e 1066

cats
- and |ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen 667
- are beautiful 667
- their lairs or holes 667
- their skin is like the west wind 667
- their skin is worn by |ku-te-!gaua 667
- |ku-te !gaua enters fire and draws them out 667
- |ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen sing for 667
- |ku-te-!gaua makes fires at their lair 667

cattle
- Boer 19
- in the morning 579
- pastoralism in |han≠kass'o's country 762
- taken by |xam to eat 19
- the eating habits of 579
- the nature and actions of 579
- why Korannas acquired guns 762
- why the Koranna posssess cattle and the Bushmen do not 1137

cavalry
- and a review of the parade 883, 883
- the people who were riding 883
- the people with white caps who were riding 883
- volunteer 883

cave
- and the man who sought refuge from the rain and found a lion there 449

celestial bodies
- !kun names of 951
- and the !kun 951
- description of 160
- descriptions of 951
- movements of 160
- nature of 160
- sun, Moon and stars 160

ceremony
- and Mr Orpen's picture of sorcerers 560
- and Ssa ka Kumm 475
- and the new maiden who ate ostrich marrow without the knowledge of her people 482
- and the passing of water 476
- for hunting with dogs 507
- for new maidens 482
- for removing the baboon's curse from the killing bow 545
- for removing the hyena's curse from the killing bow 546
- for the cutting up of eland 475
- for the killing of eland 476
- for the successful hunting of eland 475
- making cuts on the bow when a baboon has been killed 545
- making cuts on the bow when a hyena has been killed 546
- of sorcerers in which they strengthen themselves 560
- performed by new maidens so that their father's dogs should hunt well 507
- |kaggen and the hunting of eland 476

chameleon
- a !kun song about 970
- a rain's thing 355
- an old woman asks it for rain 355
- and angry rain 356
- and rain 355
- brings rain 355
- is 'father's man' 356
- is a rain's thing or animal 356
- is a sky's thing 356
- its colour and rain 355
- its song 970
- or ≠na≠n'arro 970
- why it must not be killed 356

Charlton House
- Jan Plat at, in Mowbray 571

charm
- an explanation of the !hau-!hau 674
- and Ssho |oa 309
- and the scent of the hartebeest 416
- for hunting springbok 309
- for missing one's aim 674
- made by a mother 416
- made from one of |kaggen's things 416
- made of baboon's hair and Ssho |oa 553
- made of the hartebeest's foot 416
- that protects children from |kaggen 416
- the 'working' or making of 674
- the making of 416
- used in hunting 674
- which protects against illness 553

charms
- and where Ssho |oa is found 312
- for successful hunting 312
- the use of Ssho |oa 312

Chaser-of-food
- made the game wild 490
- made the Quagga run away 490

Cheetah
- and Anteater's laws 198
- marries elder sister 198

chest
- 'touching chests' 620
- and bewitchment 620
- and sleepiness 620
- and the story of !gwa !nuntu and the Elephants 618
- approaching people's 'chests' 620
- of strangers 618
- the approach of strangers makes people sleepy 618, 620
- the Elephants' chests make !gwa !nuntu sleepy 618

chiansbok
- hunting, preparation and eating of 163

child
- 'Hottentot boy carried off by Baboons' 7
- a custom observed with young children 534
- and a lion's story 382
- and illness 534
- and respecting the lion 827
- and stars 960
- and stars and flowers 517
- and Sun, Moon, and stars 32
- and the advice given by Snore-White-Lying 429
- and the African ground weevil 534
- and the owl, believed to foretell the coming of the lion 827
- angers and offends 45
- appearance of 45
- baboons raise a Koranna 7
- beauty of 45
- Black Crow calling Jackal 49
- colour of 45
- Dawn's Heart's 45
- Day's Heart Star child 182
- Day's Heart star child 256
- Day's Heart's 45, 45, 49
- flesh of is red 45
- healing with a weevil 534
- how Dia!kwain cared for his after the death of his first wife 429
- hyena's 46
- incantation to the Moon and stars 14
- is startled awake 534
- is taken by baboons 7
- its cold is cured using a reed necklace 793
- Koranna 7
- Kwa-kkwara marries a girl 405
- Kwa-kkwara pretends to be a child and hides his grown-up things 405
- laughs 45
- lions take revenge on it when it is grown 827
- mocks those who are not handsome 45
- Moon's 37
- must not blow on the fly 827
- must not disrespect the lion's fly 827
- of Star 183
- of the Daybreak Star 182
- or pet 624
- star's 32
- sun's 960
- tells |xue 'divide my hands' 1017
- the Day's Heart star child 152
- the Daybreak Star Heart child 182
- the eland is |kaggen's 624
- the Moon pierced by the Sun 11
- the Moon's 11
- the son of |kaggen, the Baboons, and |kaggen 666
- the song of the !khau's 691
- the Star was once 517
- the star's 14
- the story of the Kwa-kkwara 405
- who makes light of the lion 827
- who resembles her Day's Heart's father 45
- who saves its parents from a lion 382
- with convulsions in its sleep 534
- |kaggen and the Moon and 37
- |kaggen makes an eland 624
- |kaggen's son is !gaunu-tsaxau 666
- |xue is a spirit and kills his 1026
- |xue's 1017, 1026

children
- !kun 1072
- !kun marriage customs 1078
- 'Flat Bushmen's' 272
- 'Grass Bushmen' resemble, are 'Children of shortness' 805
- 'young Mantis' 682
- a game played with the Phyllomorpha paradoxa or withered-leaf insect distracts them from crying 652
- and !kun customs at death 984
- and a note on the First Bushmen 297
- and avoidance behaviour relating to lions 447
- and avoidance of the name of the lion 421
- and calling of lion's name 266
- and Ddi xerreten and the Lioness 837
- and hunting springbok 613
- and Ichneumon's discourse 272
- and kaunu who drives locusts with them 915
- and lions 424
- and mode of addressing rain 815
- and playing with or disrespecting the lion's name 423
- and porcupine hunting 729
- and swallows 521
- and the !kwai !kwai and |kaggen 765
- and the actions performed by mothers during earthquakes 525
- and the drought which caused |han≠kass'o's grandparents to starve 751
- and the hartebeest charm 416
- and the Jackal's speech 266
- and the lion's revenge on the hunting-ground 423
- and the Porcupine 682
- and the story of !gwa !nuntu and the Elephants 618
- and the use of the term ddabba-i 853
- and understanding 272, 853
- and Xwerri-kau's story 424
- and |kaggen and the !kwai !kwai 615
- and |kaggen turned into a hartebeest 101
- and ||kabbo's intended return home 289
- are boys 298
- are cautioned about respecting the lion's name 423
- are cured using the !nu !nurussi or Brachycerus, African ground weevil 792
- are educated by their elders 853
- are instructed by their mothers 298
- are put in the !kwai !kwai's net 615
- are taken by the !kwai !kwai 615
- are taught not to laugh at the Moon 874
- are taught the hunting-ground's doings 424
- are taught to respect the Moon 874
- are told not to cry for food 750
- become cowards from eating a jackal's heart 744
- behaviour causes hunting accident 250
- break the porcupine's leg-bones 729
- burn the !kwai !kwai 615
- burnt by ||khwai-hemm's tongue 788
- call the lion Hair 423
- call the Moon's name 303
- cared for by the old people 1072
- create the Sun 298
- cry on account of their 'foolishness' 750
- cut and carry hartebeest's flesh 101
- deceived the Sun 298
- do not eat a jackal's heart 744
- do not say the lion's name at night 829
- drive locusts 915
- drive the springbok 815
- eat little birds and mice 903
- eat lizards called ||horu 931
- educating 750
- education of 421
- fear rain's things 412
- fear the porcupine 412
- food eaten by 903
- frightened 101
- girl- 101
- give the Sun directions 298
- how their mothers protect them from |kaggen 416
- how they anger the Moon 303
- how they are carried when very little 866
- how they are raised 1078
- how women carry them 866
- hunt food 101
- hunt game during drought 751
- in Kareebergen Stuurmansfontein dialect 97
- instructed by parents how to get food 413
- kill and skin the Fieldmice 752
- kill the star 1083
- killed by the !kwai !kwai 765
- liberated by Ddi xerreten 837
- live again 765
- look out for springbok 815
- methods of carrying 866
- must avoid eating the porcupine's neck 412
- must collect bushes to make shelters 815
- must not eat certain parts of the ostrich 504
- must not eat the backbone of things 424
- must not play at gargling 501
- must not play with the porcupine's bones 729
- must not say the names of the dead at night 854
- must not throw stones at swallows 521
- must respect magic things or the rain's things 521
- must respect the lion's name 829
- of First Bushmen 300
- of Moon 216
- of the !kun and death 984
- of the !kun eat the |nu'she bird 1085
- of the Early Race put their comrade into a Fieldmouse skin and he becomes a lion 752
- of the Elephants 618
- of the First Bushmen 206, 298, 301
- of the First Bushmen threw the Sun into the sky 297
- of the Moon 179
- of the Rain resemble a calf and grow and get horns 748
- of the Rain, killed by the girl of the Early Race 748
- of the widow 1078
- of the widow provide for her 1078
- of the |xam 19
- offend the Moon 303
- people do not put away meat for them 750
- play with the star 1083
- pull the star out of the ground 1083
- raised by Boers 19
- raising of dead man's 250
- resemble their father 682
- return to their own people 837
- run after springbok 701
- run down steenbok 751
- see and shoot well 613
- sent by grandmother 298
- sing loudly 615
- sit like stones 788
- skin hartebeest 101
- skin |kaggen 101
- springbok possess magic arrows 709
- stars 1083
- steal Sun's armpit 206
- stolen by Boers 19
- stories told to 750
- Sun and Moon story 203
- taught about flies and lions 447
- taught about lions 447
- taught not to play at water–holes 447
- taught not to play with a sorcerer's name 436
- taught not to throw stones at locusts 915
- taught that sneezing to be avoided when game is shot 515
- taught the kkoroken ritual or preventing the sneeze 515
- taught to respect sorcerers 436
- taught to use another name for the lion 423
- that are ill 792
- the !nu !nurussi is tied to their throat 792
- the 'killing of' 984
- the consequences of their eating the springbok's tongue-tip 563
- the consequences of their not avoiding certain foods 424
- the consequences of their playing with springbok bones and skin 709
- the cutting of parts of their body 193
- the death of 984
- the lion waits for them to grow up before killing them 829
- the Lioness loves them 837
- the maiden's story; the frog's story 375
- the Moon and Sun 216
- the names of Mkuan's 1120
- the Porcupine's preparation of 788
- the protection of their hearts during earthquake 525
- the role of children in hunting game 751
- the Sun pierces the full Moon with his knife 179
- the Water's children 748
- their actions 682
- their education 424
- their foolish actions 853
- their hearts startled by earthquake 525
- their laughter angers the Moon and causes an eclipse 301
- their names 682
- things that can kill 416
- throw away the star 1083
- throw sleeping Sun into sky 206
- throwing up the Sun 97
- understand 298
- Water's, eaten by the new maiden 375
- what happens when they slight the lion by saying its name 829
- what old people teach them about open ostrich eggshells and snakes 842
- what they are taught about life after death 854
- what they call the lion at night 829
- what they can eat 424
- what they do when they see a lion's spoor 421
- what they must avoid 424
- what they say when they see beautiful springbok 613
- when alarmed during an earthquake 525
- when dead they do not eat 984
- who create the Sun 300
- who cry are killed and eaten by !nu !numma-!kuiten 890
- who disrespect the lion and what happens when they are adults 423
- who live nicely with and work for the Lioness 837
- who misbehave, threatened with !nu !numma-!kuiten 890
- who throw up the sleeping Sun into the sky 300
- whose people live in the ravines 837
- widow married by her dead husband's next brother 1078
- wind, weather and springbok hunting 701
- wounded game jumps up if they sneeze 515
- young |kaggen and young |kwammana 788
- |kaggen and |kwammana are rescued from ||khwai-hemm by their 788
- |kaggen and ||khwai-hemm 788
- |kaggen looks after them 615
- |kaggen resurrects 765
- |kaggen's 206, 682
- ||kabbo's 289

chippings
- drawings 554
- explanation of 771
- made before the time of the 'Boers' 554
- made by Dia!kwain's father 554
- number 4 771
- of gemsbok, quagga and ostriches 554
- rock art 771
- the place where they were made, called !kann 554
- Xaa-ttin's 554
- |han≠kass'o's explanation of 771

clay
- and the making of clay pots 823
- methods used in making 823
- moulded and smoothed with !kau bone 823
- newly dried 823
- pounding the earth for making 823
- raw- 823
- the drying of 823
- the moulding of 823
- used in the making of a cooking pot 870
- which earth is used for making 823

clay pots
- 'working' 823
- are dried in the sun 823
- are gum-coated 823
- are not struck with a stone when new 823
- are rubbed and sealed with fat 823
- are smoothed with a !kau bone 823
- blood is boiled inside 823
- how |han≠kass'o's wife, Ssuobba-||ken, learned to make 823
- the clay used for 823
- the gum used for sealing them 823
- the making of 823, 823
- the treatment of new 823
- women teach each other to make 823

cleansing
- and the story of the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- of the new maiden with rain-liquid 452
- ritual or ceremony for new maidens 452

cleverness
- to make a living 1154

clicks
- accounting for 899
- and how women show admiration for the horse 908
- and the speech of animals 899
- and ways of speaking the |xam language 326
- made by women 908
- notes on 957
- of animals and the Moon 326
- why the ostrich does not 899

cloth
- the son of the Wind 644
- the Wind's skin is 644

cloud
- shadow cast by ||khwai-hemm resembles 788
- |kaggen and ||khwai-hemm 788

clouds
- !kun name of 1066
- 'a jackal appears to be coming' 815
- 'leg comes out' 815
- 'leg' of 815
- 'newly gone along' 815
- 'shut in the place' 911
- 'were lightening' 900
- a baboon's are like a person's when it dies 545
- a dead person's 462
- an incantation to the Moon and stars 14
- and 'Aquilae's water' 690
- and death 462
- and killing baboons 545
- and lightning 901
- and rainmaking 911
- and sitting in the shade 463
- and the !gixa or sorcerer called |kaunu 911
- and the coming of the rain 1066
- and the great wind 1066
- and the rain 900, 1066
- and the rain and the rain-bull pictured in 809
- and the west wind 760
- and what happens when people die 462
- and what |han≠kass'o's grandmothers used to tell him about ≠kagara and !haunu 901
- and wind 760
- and ≠kagara's fight with !haunu 900
- and ≠kagara's fight with !haunu in the east 901
- are called 'jackal' when black 814
- are called 'rain's hair' when red 814
- are dead people 462
- are the hair of the dead 462
- become black and are called 'jackal' 815
- beliefs relating to 760
- black 760, 1066
- called 'hair' 815
- called 'jackal' 815
- called the 'man's liver' 760
- came out when |kaunu struck the bowstring 911
- darken 815
- death and 'making cloud' 545
- different kinds of 690
- different types of 275
- horns burnt to disperse or divide 816
- in rock painting copy no. 8 809
- in the east 900, 901
- made by the baboon when dead 545
- mode of address to, by old men 815
- rain- 760
- rain-clouds 275, 690, 816, 900, 911
- rain-liquid comes out of 815
- rain–clouds 814
- resemble the stars 690
- resembled a mountain 900
- shut out the sun 911
- that are thick 901
- that herald and bring rain 814
- that lie in the south 814
- that resemble mountains 901
- that thunder, and black lightning which kills people 902
- the actions of people make them 463
- the appearance of 690
- the colours of 814
- the dead make 462
- the name of one 760
- the names of 690
- the names of black rain-clouds 275
- what people call the different 814
- what people say to 815
- when they were thick 900
- where they come from 690
- where they lie 814
- white 815
- ||kum'm or rain-clouds 1066

cobra
- is the rain's animal 740

colour
- accounting for the colours of the rainbow 632
- and rain-making 393
- of the waterbull 393
- rainbow and|kaggen and !kwammana 632
- the reasons for the colours of the gemsbok, the hartebeest, the eland, the quagga, and the springbok 392

colours
- and patterns 633
- given by |han≠kass'o 836
- names for, given by |han≠kass'o 633
- the |xam names of different 836

commando
- 'Boer' 467, 670
- 'Boer', that killed !nuin-|kui-ten 458
- and !nuin-|kui-ten who was a sorcerer or magician 458
- and the death of |han≠kass'o's uncle kkuirri-ttu 670
- and the mist 467
- attacks the |xam 467
- destroyed by the ||ua or Fox 761
- escape of |kannan from a Koranna 847
- Koranna 761, 844, 847
- of Korannas and the Early Race 844
- or war party 761
- the mist foretells the approach of one 467
- the youth who warned those at home of the approach of a Koranna– 844
- the |xam fight with 467
- war party 847

constellations
- and |xam names of stars 128
- names of stars 108
- |xam names of 108, 128

contents page
- for Book XXIV 91

convicts
- at Breakwater, 17 April 1880 1118
- names of four |xam from Aliwal North 1118
- |xam, at Breakwater Convict Station 1118

cooking
- and Ichneumon's discourse 272
- and the Anteater's laws 200
- and what people eat and wear 200
- fires 222
- implements 222
- methods 163
- methods of 222, 272
- of food 200
- of hyenas by the |xam 21
- of ostrich 272
- of ostrich flesh 15
- of the ostrich carried away by the man 15
- on fires 272
- ostrich eggs 222
- pot 15, 222, 272
- soup 163
- soup is made of hyena flesh 21
- utensils 163, 200

cooking utensil
- and tools used by the |xam 57
- and women 57
- eating and 57
- gemsbok's rib as 57
- ostrich bone as 57
- pot as 57

country
- !in nanni's maternal grandfather's, dead go into the Moon 999
- !nanni's and Tamme's 974, 992
- a bird found there 1084
- about !nauxa's 1122
- after death the people leave for another 993
- and !kun customs at death 1048
- and !kun treatment of thieves 1082
- and the Maiya 1086
- Da's 1115
- Damaraland 974
- dreams in !nanni's and Tamme's kill a person 1002
- food found in |han≠kass'o's 597
- further changes of |xue 1031
- grasshopper of !nanni's and Tamme's 1030
- hares do not live in only one 1057
- intoxicated women leave for another, and are killed there 1086
- Moon's great and little 1057
- more about |xue 1075
- names of mountains in !nauxa's 1122
- of the !kun 974
- of the !kun boys 992
- of the Bushmen 1092
- of the dead Bushmen 1057
- of the Makoba 1084
- or 'ground' 986
- people in Tamme's respect the mantis and do not eat it 1060
- people leave for another place when someone dies 999
- peoples found in Tamme's and !nanni's 1018
- Tamme's mother's 986, 1018
- the dead man's 1048
- the divining pieces used by !kun of !nanni's 1050
- the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman 1092
- the Makoba in Tamme's and the rain 1103
- the Moon and the Hare and |xue 1057
- the Ovaherero's 986
- the Ovambo's 986
- the peoples of Da's 1115
- the son of the dead man leaves for his father's 1048
- the widow leaves for her mother's 1048
- trance dance in !nanni and Tamme's country 1002
- what the dead man's son says to the widow 1048
- widow left alone in hers 1078
- widow's daughter taken to another 1078
- women punished and sent to their parent's 1082
- |xue and his father 1039
- |xue as !naxane and butterflies and with people who are afraid 1054
- |xue goes into another 1031
- |xue returns to his own 1021
- |xue throws bags with food and weapons into the Bushmen's 1092
- |xue's 1036, 1054
- |xue's father's 1036, 1039, 1057
- |xue's mother's 1036, 1075
- |xue's mother's and father's 1054
- |xue, his father and changes 1036
- ≠gerri-sse at Breakwater and later at Mowbray 485
- ≠gerri-sse's mother came from ||kabbo's 485

courage
- a |xam saying about 295
- and fear or cowardice 295
- men who run away fear greatly 295

cow
- and Rainmaking 125
- rain-cow 274
- ridden by the rainmaker 274
- the old man who makes rain 274
- Water cow 125

coward
- and Day's Heart 45
- Jackal is a |kerre 45
- |xam word for 45

cowardice
- a |xam saying about 295
- and courage 295
- men who run away fear greatly 295

creation
- 'U'we made these things' 1057
- a !kun story of 1107
- a legend of the !kun concerning 1092
- and a note on the First Bushmen 297
- and the bag of the dead Bushmen 1057
- and the Day's Heart star 256
- and the Early Race of Bushmen 1092
- and the Hare 1092
- and the new maiden 658
- and |kaggen's creation of the Moon 624
- and |xue 1092
- by the Hare 1057
- by |kaggen of the Moon 50
- by |xue 1057
- by |xue or U'we 1057
- feather which becomes the Moon 624
- gives skin to jackals 1107
- Moon and Hare story 1106
- Moon and Sun and Hare 1107
- Moon and Sun and Hares 1107
- of death 66, 114, 363, 364, 365, 1057, 1092, 1106, 1107, 1107
- of death and all things 1057
- of food and food animals 1057
- of four kinds of Bushmen 1092
- of illness 1057, 1057
- of locusts by |kannu the rainmaker 638
- of Moon 205
- of stars 319
- of Sun, Moon and stars 256
- of the Bushmen 1092
- of the Milky Way 658
- of the Moon 37, 50, 50, 624
- of the Moon from an ostrich feather 50
- of the Moon from |kaggen's shoe 66
- of the Star-people 319
- of the stars 658
- of the stars and the Milky Way 658
- of the Sun 297, 298, 300
- of ≠nabbe ta !nu or Corona Australis 319
- rips off the Hare's jackal-skin 1107
- story of the !kun 1057
- story told by Tamme 1057
- the children of the First Bushmen throw up the sleeping Sun into the sky 298
- the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman 1092
- the Moon and the Hare and the origin of death 114
- the Moon and the Hare and |xue 1057, 1057
- the Moon and the Hare: a version at first by ≠kasin and then by Dia!kwain 363
- the Moon and the Hare: a version by Dia!kwain 364
- the Moon and the Hare: a version by ≠kasin 365
- the Moon and the little Hare and 66
- the new maiden who threw !huin into the sky 658
- the old woman who sends the children to throw up the sleeping Sun into the sky 300
- |kaggen and the Moon 50
- |kaggen and the Moon and 37
- |kaggen makes an eland 624

crime
- and the !kun 1082
- and the killing of offenders 1082
- the methods of punishment for favoured by the !kun 1082
- theft 1082

crocodiles
- 'alligators' 1116
- and Da's capture and the death of his parents 1116

crossing the spoor
- doubling when pursued 86

Crow
- a description of 609
- accounting for the appearance of a crow 609
- and Lion star 178
- and secretary birds 609
- and two Lions 178, 185
- called the !kagen 609
- Corvus scapulatus 609
- crows know where and show people where springboks lie 609
- finds |kwammana 609
- his house 178
- its breast 609
- messengers 609
- that eats fat 609
- that have a piece of 'white fat' at their neck 609
- that seeks |kwammana 609
- the names of 609
- the nature and habits of crows 609
- why its neck-feathers are white 609
- with fat around its neck 609

crow
- and the Day's Heart star's discourse 266
- and the Jackal's speech 266
- calls the lion 431
- doings of 266
- its appearance 431
- its nature and habits 431
- must be feared 431
- the owl and the black crow 431
- wants the lion to catch people in their sleep 431
- warns of the approach of the lion 431

Crow's story
- and what happened when the !kagen found the missing men 380
- or !kagen ka Kkomm and |hunn ta kkomm's story 380

crows
- !gauru 120
- !kagen 120
- !kagen ka Kkomm 380
- 'Boer' names of 120
- accounting for appearance of 120
- and death 929, 930
- and hunting 349
- and the missing men 380
- and the young woman who disobeyed her mother and fell in with the two Lions 929
- and the young woman who says 'the spoor of the crows abounds by me' 929
- and what happened when the !kagen found the missing men 380
- and ≠kasin's hunting adventures 349
- are sent to search for husbands 380
- await the death of a thing 930
- Cape Dutch names of 120
- different types of 120, 380
- fat is tied on their throats 380
- fat tied on throats of 120
- markings of 120
- sent out to look for husbands 120
- the Crow who breaks stones 380
- the Crow who eats fat 380
- the Crow who travels far 380
- the Crow's story 380
- the names of 380
- the sending of the Crows 120
- wait for people to die 929
- watching for 349
- why crows have white patches on neck or breast 120
- |hunn ta kkomm 380
- |xam names of 120
- |xuru 120

cup
- horn, used for bloodletting 1071

curing
- a spider bite with honey 9
- and sneezing 288
- and snoring 288
- and the Maiya plant 1086
- and the trance dance 1002
- and the treatment of intoxication from eating too much of the Maiya 1086
- illness and the trance dance 1001
- illness caused by dreams 1001, 1002
- medicines used by the |xam 9
- see healing 101

curse
- 'let a lion take |xue!' 1017
- 'Let the lion take this person' 1017
- 'May a lion take thee!' 1025
- 'May the lion eat this person!' 1017
- 'May the lion take |xue!' 1021
- accounting for the habits and appearance of hares 464
- and Moon and Hare story 464
- and the Anteater's laws 763
- and the Anteater, the young Springbok, the Lynx and the Partridge 892
- and the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- and the ætiology of animal behaviour and appearance 892
- beasts of prey were once people 763
- by the Dassie of |kaggen 610
- by the Moon of the Hare 464
- making cuts on the bow when a baboon is killed 545
- making cuts on the bow when a hyena is killed 546
- of Dassie by the husbands 380
- of the Anteater 892
- of the Baboon of the Early Race 555
- of the baboon; its bad influence or actions 545
- of the Baboons who ate human beings 555
- of the Dassie by |kaggen 610
- of the girls who become ill and die 722
- of the husbands by Dassie 380
- of the hyena; its bad influence or actions 546
- of the Lynx 892
- of the Lynx and the Anteater 763
- of the Vultures who become birds 858
- of the young woman by her mother 929
- of the young woman who disobeyed her mother and fell in with the two Lions 929
- of |xue by his wife 1017, 1021
- rain smells a cursed person 452
- removing the baboon's from the killing bow 545
- removing the hyena's from the killing bow 546
- the Crow's story 380
- the elder sister's husband curses the Vultures 858
- the maiden's cursing or scolding speech 452
- used by the !kun 1025
- when people want their hearts to stop aching 1017
- |kaggen and |kwammana visit the Dassie's house 610
- |kuken-|u |unu's 722
- |xue and his father-in-law 1021
- |xue as ostrich and other things 1025

curses
- and the bad consequences of beating the kaross on the ground 497
- cursing people or wishing death upon them 497
- of the Grass Bushmen when angry 497

cursing
- 'A fight shall come upon thee' 910
- 'Departed One!' 910
- 'Graveman!' 910
- 'Oh, mayest thou be hatched!' 910
- a maiden's 509
- and wishing another dead 910
- angry rain and angry maidens 509
- Be killed!' 910
- by people 910
- modes of 910
- resembles things which hatch 910
- that another may die 910
- the girl who snaps her fingers at her parents and the rain 509
- what is said to a person whose actions are disagreeable 547
- what people say to each other when 910

cutting
- 'in the old mark' 1094
- and digging for Ssho |oa 316
- and marking a bow used to kill a baboon 545
- and marking a bow used to kill a hyena 546
- and removing the baboon's curse from the killing bow 545
- and removing the hyena's curse from the killing bow 546
- and rituals for shooting well 311
- and scarification 311, 716
- and Ssho |oa 309
- and the ignorant man who digs up Ssho |oa 316
- and what the man says while cleansing himself 1094
- and ≠kasin's hunting adventures 349
- between the eyebrows 1094
- black men who have cuts in rock painting copies no. 5 and 6 806
- by Korannas 311
- by |xam 311
- done by women 716
- implements used for 855
- in the cleansing ritual 1094
- Korannas and the |xam cut themselves 311
- Korannas cut the back of their right wrists when they fight with their fists 311
- Korannas cut to fight others 311
- meat 869
- methods 855
- methods of 869
- of arm 193
- of body 311
- of cooked meat 855
- of finger 193
- of hand 193
- of male and female children 193
- performed by the father-in-law 1094
- power of reed and quartz 796
- rituals that ensure successful hunting 309
- skinning and 855
- the hunter 716
- the marks of a Ssho |oa's man 316
- the rituals performed for successful hunting after the death of a companion 716
- up of meat after hunting 349
- use of quartz for 869
- use of stones for 869
- using reeds 855
- with a sharpened arrow-head 716
- with a stone knife 869
- |xam cut to shoot well 311
- ||kabbo didn't have the neccessary marks 316

Da
- and |uma 1112
- and |uma's capture 1112
- his capture 1115
- his capture by the Makoba 1116
- his country 1115, 1116
- his journey with |uma to the Cape 1112
- his master 1112
- his parents and relations 1115
- his personal history 1037, 1112, 1115, 1116
- in Mowbray in May 1880 1115
- the deaths of his family members 1116
- the murder of his parents 1116
- the names of his parents 1037

dacca
- and intoxication 1007
- called pankwe by the Makoba and the Damaras 1007
- called xana by the !kun 1007
- the Makoba give it to the !kun 1007

Damara
- in Da's country 1115
- vocabulary 951
- what they call things 951
- |xue speaks Berg Damara's language 1036
- |xue, his father and changes 1036

Damaraland
- its inhabitants 1112
- peoples of 1112
- white men in 1112

Damaras
- and |uma's capture 1112
- Berg 1029, 1112
- call dacca 'pankwe' 1007
- the Hai-||umm speak the same language as 1029
- their relations with the !kun 1112

dance
- !nanni's brother beat the drum 1001
- a description of 598
- a description of the |goo or ≠gebbi-gu 804
- a game called ssauken resembles one 856
- actions after 598
- actions performed by men and women in 1001
- an account of 598, 599
- and !nanni's father and brother 1001
- and drumming 598
- and falling stars 491
- and gender 434, 598
- and healing the sick 1001
- and laughing at sorcerers 434
- and music 598
- and rainmaking 578
- and remarks concerning copies of Bushman pictures nos. I-XXIV 578
- and singing 1001
- and Stow's illustrations number 8 and 9 434
- and Stow's picture no. 3 of sorcerer's ||ken dance 529
- and the !goin-!goin 598
- and the actions of dancers 598
- and the actions performed by men and women 599
- and the beating of the drum 1001
- and the imitation of gemsbok and dogs 434
- and the making and preparation of springbok's ears for rattles 600
- and the Quagga who was poisoned by her husband 894
- and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara 862
- and the trance state 1001
- and the tying on of the dancing rattles 601
- and the use of springbok's ear dancing rattles 601
- baboons dance the ≠gebbi-ggu 559
- called !ku 862
- called the ||ken 529
- called ||ken 530
- fatigue after 598
- gestures performed during 1001
- held by the Quaggas in which they trample and kill the young He-Dog 894
- in which men imitate the call of the ostrich 804
- magic, of sorcerers 491
- men dance 598
- men nod and women clap in 862
- movements performed when singing the song of the Mother Rhinoceros 798
- Mr Stow's picture of the dance of sorcerers 434
- of rainmakers 578
- of sorcerers 434, 529
- of the sorcerers or healers 530
- of the ≠nuturu 653
- or game 862
- people make gestures and 'doctor' 1001
- performed by the 'Grass Bushmen' 804
- roles played by the dancers 434
- sounds made during the performance of 599
- the '||ken's doings' 434
- the dress worn for 599
- the dress worn in 600
- the making of a drum for 599
- the making of dancing rattles for 599
- the performance of 598
- the sorcerer's ||ken dance 530
- the sounds made during 600
- the teaching of 434
- the use of dancing rattles in 599, 600
- the women make the rattles for 600
- the |goo or ≠gebbi-gu 804
- the ||ken dance 434
- the ||ken dress 434
- trance 1001, 1002
- what is worn 434
- what men and women wear for 599
- where the She-Hyena is exposed 862
- women drum and clap 598
- young gemsbok's horns 434

dancing
- and baboons and the ≠gebbi-ggu 541
- and singing of ≠gebbi-ggu 541

dancing rattles
- are made from springbok's ears and tied to the feet of the men who dance 599
- are worn by men in a dance 599
- how they are tied on to the feet of the men who dance 601
- made of springbok ears and filled with ||kerri berries 601
- make men dance well 599
- the making of 599, 600
- the preparation of the springbok's ears 600
- the sound of 599
- worn by men in a dance 600
- ||kerri berries put in dried springbok's ears 600

Daoud Moos
- his personal history 304
- the names of his relations 304

darkness
- 'is not a little black' 843
- 'sat' 990
- 'shuts people from home' 873
- and an eclipse of the sun 873
- and an explanation of the eclipse of the Moon 301
- and lions 302
- and looking at the Moon as it comes out 302
- and the angry Moon 302
- and the Bushman and !koranna 1137
- and the Hyena's revenge 843
- and the Moon who becomes angry at the children's laughter 301
- and when the sun goes in 873
- and why the |xam fear the sun 873
- night 990
- resembles fear 301
- the fear of 990
- the Moon creates and punishes people with 301
- the people fear it 302
- the |go |go'ken or Tortoise's head in the bag which resembles 843
- traps people on the hunting-ground 873
- what |xam say about 843
- when the Ovaherero's oxen disappeared and the lion killed their cattle 990

Dassie
- 'mother' 610
- 'young' 610
- and Anteater's laws 198
- and creation of stars 319
- and Crow's story 380
- and new maiden 319
- and ≠nabbe ta !nu 319
- causes stones to cover men 380
- her people and their things become stars 319
- her urine or 'water' 610
- her urine, water is bitter 380
- hyrax 38
- is cursed by husbands 380
- is cursed by |kaggen 610
- is |kaggen's wife 88
- its house 610
- lives with the Bees 610
- makes rocks fall on |kaggen and |kwammana 610
- names for 208
- or Rock Rabbit 319
- other names for 88
- the husbands curse 380
- the monster ||khwai-hemm's speech and 88
- |huntu !kat !katten 38, 88, 208
- |kaggen and !goe !kweitentu 38
- |kaggen and |kwammana visit its house 610
- |kaggen's wife 208
- |kaggen's wife is 38

dawn
- actions at 500
- and destroying the sneeze or kkoroken 516
- and standing 500
- and the !ho 500
- and the !ho and Ko-boken 499
- and the !ho: a whirlwind 499, 500
- and the whirlwind 500
- customs relating to 500
- its doings 499, 500
- prohibitions relating to 499, 500
- sneezing at 516
- sneezing at and hunting 516
- sneezing in the early morning considered unfortunate 516
- standing at 500
- the consequences of standing at 499
- the early morning's doings 500
- warnings about 499, 500

Dawn's stars
- !gaunu named them 505
- and the nature and habits of porcupines 505
- aquilae 505
- ||xwhai 505

day
- -time 1047
- times of, when the |u' ||ke' or Tshaka can be handled 1096
- times of, when the ≠nabbi plant is eaten 1096
- when Karu spoke of |xue 1047

Day's Heart
- !gau e |i 262
- !kaun !khe 262
- actions of 45
- and doings of |xam 256
- and his daughter 256
- and Lynx 256
- and Moon 262
- and nature and habits of animals 256
- and Sun 256, 262
- and the conversations of animals 45
- and the doings of jackals 263
- and the Jackal's speech 263, 266
- appearance of 45
- Black Crow calling Jackal 49
- buries his child 256
- child 49
- child of 45
- daughter of 45
- Dawn's Heart 45
- Dawn's-Heart 256, 256
- discourse of 263, 266
- discourses 256
- doings of 45
- doings of animals and 45
- fights Hyena and Jackal 45
- flesh is red 256
- flesh of is red 45
- heart is a child 256
- heaven's thing 256
- his child 262
- his daughter 262
- his discourse 262
- his doings 262
- his heart 262
- his name 262
- his wife 262
- is a star 256, 262
- is cold 262
- is darkness's thing 262
- is handsome 45
- Jupiter 45, 256, 256, 262
- marries She-Lynx 45
- marries the Hyena 45
- movements of 256
- names his child 256
- nature of 256
- relations of 45
- resembles daughter 45
- resembles fire 262
- sister-in-law of 45
- speech to his daughter 256
- spits out his child 256
- star 45, 256, 262, 263, 266
- story of 45
- swallows his child 256
- the appearance of 262
- the conversation of the Hyenas 45
- the people's names for 256
- weapons of 45
- what he says to his daughter 262
- wife of 45
- wife, nuin ttarra 256

Day's Heart child
- and her father's speech or discourses 256
- and Moon 262
- and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara, her mother 862
- Dawn’s–Heart 256
- grows 262
- her doings 256
- her father buries her 256
- her father is Day's Heart Star 256
- her father is Day's Heart star 262
- her father spits her out 256
- her father swallows her 256
- her father's discourse or speech 262
- her mother 256, 262
- her name is heart 256
- how her mother became a Lynx 862
- is a star 256, 262
- is cold 262
- is darkness's thing 262
- resembles her father 256
- the appearance of 262
- the doings of 262
- was buried under the !huin plant by her father, the Day's Heart star 862

Day's Heart child's mother
- and Jackal and Hyena's revenge 256
- becomes a Lynx 256
- becomes an animal 256
- eats flesh, eats raw 256
- grew lion hair 262
- her daughter is Day's Heart child 262
- her face is white 256
- her kaross 256
- her name is Lynx 256
- her name is nuin ttarra 256
- her odour 256
- her ornaments or jewellery 256
- her younger sister 256
- is a beast of prey 256, 262
- is a Lynx 256, 262
- is a person 262
- is an animal 262
- is different 256, 262
- is handsome 256
- is poisoned, bewitched by Jackal and Hyena 256
- Lynx-mother 256
- married Day's Heart star 256
- must hunt or running' catch things 256
- must marry her own kind 256
- must not dig for 'Bushman rice' 256
- resembles a Cat 262

Day's Heart star
- !ko'-g !nuin-tara and 862
- accounting for his appearance 862
- and his wife !ko'-g !nuin-tara, the She-Lynx 862
- and his younger sister-in-law, |xe-dde-yo'e 862
- and the poisoning of his wife 862
- anoints his wife with the contents of a goat's stomach 862
- drives goats to !ko'-g !nuin-tara 862
- hides and buries his child under the !huin plant 862
- his eyes shine like fires 862
- is tricked and marries the She-Hyena 862
- mistakes the She-Hyena for his wife 862
- removes his wife's Lynx-hair 862
- stabs the She-Hyena with his assegai 862
- the Dawn's Heart star 862
- the Hyenas had made his heart angry 862

Day's Heart's child
- and the Blue Crane 49
- angers and offends 45
- appearance of 45, 49
- beauty of 45
- Black Crow calling Jackal 49
- colour of 45, 49
- Dawn's Heart's 45
- flesh of is red 45
- is praised 49
- is white 49
- laughs 45
- mocks the Jackal 49
- mocks those who are not handsome 45
- wanted by the Jackal as her daughter 49
- who resembles her Day's Heart's father 45

Day's Hearts
- are sky's things 262
- Day's Heart star's discourse 262
- live in heaven 262
- stars 262
- the doings of 262

ddabba-i
- and the education of |xam children by their elders 853
- and the foolish actions of children 853
- and understanding 853

Ddi xerreten
- and the Lioness 837, 837
- his head is a stone 837
- is a person of the Early Race 837
- liberates and returns the children their homes 837
- the Lioness hurts her teeth biting his stone head 837
- what he says to the children 837

dead
- 'come as a fighting party' 854
- 'do not possess their thinking strings' 854
- and life after death 854
- are called 'old people' 854
- are eaten by sorcerers 721
- cause illness 854
- children are taught not to say their names at night 854
- come to kill a person 854
- do not understand 854
- dreaming about them 854
- harm the living 854
- human beings 721
- people become spirit–-people after they die 854
- saying their names at night avoided 854
- teachings about 854
- the name for is 'spirit–-people' 854
- their names may be spoken at noon 854
- what |han≠kass'o's grandfather, Tsatsi, calls them 854

dead Bushmen
- and the Hare and the Moon and |xue 1057
- smell badly 1057
- their bags are thrown by the Hare into their country 1057

dead man
- and !kun customs at death 1049
- his bag 1049
- his dress after death 1049
- his father arranges his body 1049
- his head rests on his bag 1049
- his things 1049
- wears a |ou's horn 1049
- wears jackal's feet and tail and skin 1049

dead people
- are those who rode the Rain 865
- rain-sorcerers 865

death
- !kun beliefs about 1101
- !kun customs at 983, 984, 993, 999, 1048, 1049
- !kun story of creation of 1057
- !kun terms for 1088
- !kwarra-an's husband ≠gerri-sse and a son were shot by a Dutch man 398
- !kweiten ta ||ken's relations were 'killed by sorcery' 438
- !nanni's experience of 1041
- 'another child must die' 984
- 'death news' 429
- 'his heart is that on account of which he throws up earth' 800
- 'making cloud' 545
- 'mere' spirits go away 1102
- 'when we shoot our death' 708
- a baboon's are like a man's 545
- a child's gargling can kill the father 501
- a dead man has a mere spirit as well as another which is a snake 1102
- a description of 148
- a dream of 461
- a dust that causes 497
- a snake found near a grave 1101
- a widow married by her dead husband's next brother 1078
- about the sorceress !kwarra-an 398
- about various people known by |han≠kass'o 871
- accidental 250
- actions after 1048, 1049
- actions at 993, 999
- after chasing springbok in the sun 800
- an earthquake seeks people who will die 525
- an Egyptian myth about 327
- and !kun marriage customs 1078
- and !kun treatment of thieves 1082
- and !nana-an, or calling to the wounded springbok 849
- and !nanni's family 1041
- and 'a person who rains' 879
- and 'killing magic' of sorcerers 523
- and 'killing' rain 274, 452
- and a man's poisoned flesh 101
- and a prayer addressed to the Moon 464
- and a snake lying on its back 1100
- and a snake which announces a death in the family 1100
- and a snake which must not be killed 1100
- and a song sung by Xaa-ttin about the broken string 459
- and actions of the moon 462
- and actions of the springbok and gemsbok 429
- and afterlife 219
- and an extract copied down by Lloyd 327
- and ancestors 532
- and animals found near graves 1101
- and apparitions 532
- and arrows that miss 716
- and beasts of prey 424
- and birds that wait for 929
- and black snakes 1102
- and burial 219, 250, 349, 984, 993, 999, 1101
- and burial and rain 879
- and cleansing rituals 1093
- and cursing 910
- and dead wind–sorcerers or windmakers 538
- and Dia!kwain's uncle |uherre's power over ostriches 442
- and dreams 854
- and dust 461
- and dust signals 800
- and earthquakes 493, 525
- and falling hearts 531
- and falling stars 491, 493, 525, 531
- and falling stars and hearts 526
- and flowers 531
- and further particulars regarding purification 1098
- and graves 1114
- and graves or 'grounds' of the dead 1101
- and how people were once reborn, like the Moon 464
- and how Xaa-ttin asked the dead magician !nuin-|kui-ten for rain 456
- and hunting 349
- and illness 497, 708
- and illness from eating too much of the Maiya plant 1086
- and lions 424
- and living again of male ostriches 913
- and locusts and locust birds 523
- and magic 148, 497
- and making cuts on the bow when a baboon is killed 545
- and methods of punishment for favoured by the !kun 1082
- and Moon and Hare 217
- and Moon and Hare story 464
- and Moon's message about living again 332
- and more about sorcerers 494
- and mourning 250, 983
- and Mr Orpen's picture of sorcerers 560
- and murder 1114
- and night 250
- and old kaross 250
- and place where dead go 219
- and possession 521
- and purification after shooting and killing another person 1093
- and Ralston's extract on mythology 327
- and resurrection 66, 114, 148, 217, 332, 363, 364, 365, 464, 1026, 1033, 1039, 1057
- and resurrection of |kaggen's son, !gaunu-tsaxau 666
- and resurrection of |xue 1031, 1038
- and revenge 497
- and saying the names of the dead 854
- and seeing the dead 532
- and shooting stars and hearts 526
- and sleeping in ashes 983
- and song of the |kam-ssin !ku 976
- and sorcerers 525
- and sorcerers who kill people with magic 523
- and spirit-animals 1101, 1102
- and spirit-lizards 1101
- and spirit-people 493
- and spirit-snakes 1101
- and spirits 532, 1102
- and Ssho |oa 309
- and standing at dawn 499
- and stars 531
- and sticks that seek people 500
- and swallows 521
- and the !kun 993, 999, 1043, 1114
- and the 'Bushman doctor', sorcerer or !gixa 782
- and the 'old people' or the dead 854
- and the 'wound's clot' or 'blood clot' 706
- and the actions of sorcerers 532
- and the actions of springbok 461
- and the bad consequences of beating the kaross on the ground 497
- and the bad consequences of disrespecting magic things 523
- and the broken string 458
- and the burial of |kuken-|u |unu and the girls 722
- and the consequences of a woman's smelling Ssho |oa scent 315
- and the consequences of standing at dawn 500
- and the dead person's snake 1100
- and the doings of crows 929
- and the dream 1002
- and the drought which caused |han≠kass'o's grandparents to starve 751
- and the explanation of the name Ssu-!kui-ten-tta 428
- and the falling hearts of sorcerers 493
- and the game that takes hunters to their deaths 424
- and the giving of !kweiten ta ||ken's name 438
- and the Hare and the Moon: their speech 1106
- and the Hare's bag of illness 1057
- and the heart that aches 1102
- and the ill effects of the !ho: a whirlwind 500
- and the making of clouds 545
- and the making of the grave 879
- and the Moon 179, 468
- and the Moon pierced by the Sun 11
- and the Moon which returns again 1057
- and the Moon's curse 464
- and the rain 461, 879
- and the raising of the dead man's children 1078
- and the resurrection of male ostriches 913
- and the return to life of the dead Bushmen 1057
- and the sorceress who snored Dia!kwain's injured throat 400
- and the spirit-antelope 1101
- and the springbok's story 427
- and the story of the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- and the transformation of the !khau lizard into mountain passes 696
- and the treatment of strangers 1114
- and the wind 461
- and the young moon's story 1043
- and the young woman who disobeyed her mother and fell in with the two Lions 929
- and the young woman who says 'the spoor of the crows abounds by me' 929
- and the ||hin snake 1100
- and throwing shadows 525
- and transformation 1031, 1033
- and transformation of |xue 1038
- and uxoricide 1080
- and weapons used by the !kun 1041
- and when a man's flesh moves 102
- and why Dia!kwain's brother Ko-bbo received his name 435
- and widow's story 253
- and wife-killing 1043
- and Xwerri-kau's story 424
- and |uma's capture 1112
- and |xue 1038, 1057
- and |xue's changes 1039
- and |xue's resurrection 1036, 1045
- and |xue's speech to the Hare 1092
- and |xue's transformation 1026, 1036
- and |xue's transformations 1012, 1017, 1045
- and |xue, the Hare and the Moon 1057
- and ||kabbo's place 430
- and ≠kasin's hunting adventures 349
- animals and spirits of the dead 1101
- animals that die 66
- another man takes the dead man's arrows 993
- asking dead game sorcerers for food 442
- avenging 1114
- behaviour at 250, 984
- being 'quickly' or not-quite-dead 1088
- beliefs about 879, 999
- birds await a person's 930
- birds such as crows wait for the person to die 930
- black men poisoned Dia!kwain's aunt 400
- burial and avenging a death 1114
- can be seen in water 531
- caused by hunting accidents 250
- caused by sorcery 497
- caused by the !ho 499
- children kill the star 1083
- children must not say the name of the dead at night 854
- clouds come out after 462
- creation of 114, 1092
- crying of the wind is an evil omen of 535
- customs and rituals surrounding 250
- customs at 722
- customs observed at 722
- dead 'remain so' 114
- dead carried in the Moon 468
- dead children do not eat 984
- dead men become snakes 1102
- dead sorcerers 446
- dead sorcerers have power after death 538
- dead sorcerers or Rainmakers have power over the rain 456
- dead sorcerers rode and possess the Rain 865
- Dia!kwain's dream of the death of his father 461
- Dia!kwain's family threatened with 435
- Dia!kwain's relatives 'killed with' sorcery 435
- different kinds of spirits 1102
- different ways of dying 1102
- different ways of dying and being killed 249
- doings of the springbok and springbok hunting 706
- dream that Dia!kwain had before he heard of the death of his father 461
- dress after 1049
- due to a curse 497
- due to lack of sense 497
- due to starvation and drought 751
- eating the mantis results in 1060
- fighting and violence amongst the !kun 1041
- flesh that becomes cold and dies 101
- flesh that dies 102
- flesh that is living or dead 101
- foretelling 429, 461, 531
- from a 'killing' rain 275
- from elephant 1102
- from illness 219
- from snakebite 1102
- from the heat of the sun 800
- further changes of |xue 1031
- gambro can kill people 642
- game 'knows' people's deaths 424
- game leads people to 427
- great hole 219
- Hamerkop tells news of 531
- Hare objects to the odour of decay 1057
- Hendrik Ronebout's father killed by a 'Boer' 489
- his family cry greatly 1048
- his son leaves for his father's father's country 1048
- his things are not given to another person 1048
- his widow leaves for her mother's country 1048
- ill-effects of eating gambro 642
- in Tamme's country the dead become ||gan-a, or a dream 1002
- in the family 1100
- its creation 1107
- killing a wife 1080
- killing members of one's family 1041
- killing the dream and the trance dance 1002
- leaving the place of 722
- life after 854, 1102
- lizards and antelopes found near graves are feared 1101
- locusts and locust birds are dangerous things or 'fighting things' 523
- lying in the 'old hut' 722
- making a good wound 706
- making springbok become faint 849
- making the springbok 'lie down' and die 706
- making the springbok's heart descend or 'fall' 849
- man killed by a lion 10
- Moon and Hare story 1106
- Moon and Sun and Hares 1107
- more about |xue 1033
- names of dead respected 1082
- names of spirits feared 1082
- news of 461
- of !kun 983
- of !kwai-!kwa killed by a leopard 483
- of !nanni or Tamme's aunt, killed by elephants 982
- of !nanni's little brother 999
- of !nanni's uncle, |un'ta 1041
- of 'food animals' 66
- of 'handsome' or 'good–looking' people 720
- of a companion 716
- of a husband 1078
- of a |xam called !kauru-ttin 779
- of animals 66, 114, 217, 219, 1057
- of animals that people eat 66
- of aunt 982
- of babies 491
- of baboons 553
- of Boers or Dutch 219
- of children 984
- of Da's parents and other members of his family 1116
- of Dia!kwain's father 461
- of Dia!kwain's wife 429
- of flesh 66
- of Hare's mother 363, 364
- of hunter 250
- of huntsman 253
- of ill people 365
- of Jan Plat's brother Ruyter who was beaten to death by a 'Boer' 539
- of Kki-a-||ken and some other |xam 522
- of Korannas 219
- of man 66
- of man accidentally wounded by another while hunting springbok 250
- of men shot by others 219
- of Moon 216, 217, 332
- of new maidens 531
- of people 66, 217, 249, 332, 332, 364, 365, 1057, 1106, 1107
- of people 'eaten' by sorcerers, who are like lions 720
- of people due to black lightning 902
- of people killed by sorcerers 493
- of people shot with sorcerer's arrows 720
- of people who must return to life after dying 114
- of sorcerers 493
- of sorcerers or rainmakers 491
- of springbok 706
- of stars when they fall to earth 1083
- of Tamme's brothers 994
- of Tamme's father 995
- of Tamme's younger brother 984
- of the !khau 696
- of the children put into the water by the Makoba 1116
- of the Hare 1092
- of the Hare's mother 464
- of the men who hunted Lions with bones 756
- of the men who hunted Lions with bones - further details 759
- of the Moon 11, 37
- of the mother Hare 66
- of the sorcerer !nuin-|kui-ten 458, 459
- of the star's man 826
- of the wife killed by means of a poisoned arrow in her bed 1080
- of those who dwell on the earth 66
- of widow's husband 253
- of women 1043
- of |a!kunta's grandmother 148
- of |han≠kass'o's uncle kkuirri-ttu at the hands of white men 670
- of |uma's half-brother 1112
- of |uma's relative killed by an arrow 1114
- of |xam 219, 249, 489, 539, 670, 779
- of |xam at the hands of white and black men 871
- of |xue 1012, 1031, 1033, 1036, 1045
- of |xue and his transformations 1028
- of |xue's father-in-law 1026
- of ||kabbo's brother and sister-in-law 290
- of ||kannu the 'Rain's man' 276
- of ||khwih and his companions 871
- of ≠kasin's brother carried off by a lion 335
- omens of 461, 535, 1100
- on hunting ground 250
- on the hunting ground 424
- on the hunting-ground 716, 800
- origin of 217
- origins of 1057
- path of First Bushmen 219
- people 'altogether die' 363, 464
- people 'altogether' die 364, 365
- people become a different thing after 532
- people become part of the sky after 462
- people become spirit–-people after 854
- people change form after 532
- people who are killed by sorcery 560
- people will vanish and disappear 365
- practices surrounding 148
- presentiments of 461, 531
- respect for and fearing the dead 993
- rituals for successful hunting after 716
- signs relating to and news of 1100
- snakes and spirits of the dead 1102
- song about mourning loss of a son 976
- sorcerers do not altogether die 446
- sorcerers enter people as swallows and kill them or make them ill 521
- sorcerers hearts become falling stars when they die 494
- sorcerers kill people who disrespect magic things 521
- sorcerers kill with invisible arrows 720
- sorcerers smell people who die 560
- spirit-animals live near graves 1102
- spirit-people 442, 456
- spirit-people or |nu-!ke 446
- spirit–people or dead sorcerers 538
- Ssho |oa can kill and cause illness 315
- Ssu-!kui-ten-tta or Snore-White-Lying died at the Breakwater Convict Station 428
- stars 1083
- stars take hearts away 526
- stones which kill thrower 147
- story of the old man who makes rain 274
- superstitions regarding 1100
- taking off the skin after 532
- Tamme's father killed a person and was killed by 'another man' 995
- Tamme's father's heart ached and he slept in ashes 983
- Tamme's uncle 'kills' another child 984
- teachings about 526
- the !ho makes people ill and kills them 499
- the 'heart falls' 461
- the actions of nursing mothers to prevent 491
- the actions of the child 1048
- the actions of the daughter 1049
- the actions of the dead man's mother 1049
- the actions of the game foretell 429
- the actions of the parents of dead children 984
- the actions of the widow 1048, 1049
- the arrangement of the body 1049
- the baboon's hair and Ssho |oa used as charm against illness 553
- the body is arranged only by the dead man's father 1049
- the cleansing of a man who has killed another 1098
- the consequences of 'missing the game' 708
- the creation of 332, 365, 464, 1106
- the crying wind foretells 535
- the dead 'do not possess their thinking strings' 854
- the dead and snakes 1101
- the dead are carried by the moon 462
- the dead go into the Moon 999
- the dead have wind 462
- the dead make clouds 462
- the dead man's bow and stick 993
- the dead person's 'gall' 462
- the dream kills people because its heart aches 1002
- the falling of the heart 309
- the falling-down-heart 327
- the fatal hunting adventure of !kwai-!kwa and his companion 483
- the forms the dead take 532
- the game knows or senses 427
- the game's presentiment of 427
- the grave 993
- the Hare and his kind decay and die outright 1107
- the Hare cries for all those who die outright 1106
- the Hare gets the Moon's message wrong and tells people that they will 'thoroughly' die 114
- the Hare objects to smell of 1106
- the Hare who fears death and |xue 1092
- the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman 1092
- the killing of the ||gaun-a or ghost 1113
- the Maiya 'kills' people 1086
- the making of graves by the !kun 984
- the making of the grave 999
- the man killed by a lion and the search for him 228
- the Moon and Hare 332
- the Moon and Sun 216
- the Moon and the Hare and the origin of 114, 468
- the Moon and the Hare's speeches about 464
- the Moon and the Hare: a version at first by ≠kasin and then by Dia!kwain 363
- the Moon and the Hare: a version by Dia!kwain 364
- the Moon and the Hare: a version by ≠kasin 365
- the Moon and the little Hare 66
- the Moon decays and grows small then comes alive again 11
- the Moon lives again 363, 364, 365
- the Moon's message about 363
- the mother mourns her daughter 1080
- the origin of 66, 364, 464
- the other people leave the place and go to another country 993
- the other people leave the place of death another day 999
- the people ask spirit–people for wind 538
- the people travel to a 'different place' after 722
- the place where |xam go after 249
- the rain washes out a dead man's footsteps 879
- the star man's name is not uttered 826
- the Sun and Moon only die a little 1107
- the Sun pierces the full Moon with his knife 179
- the treatment of widows 1078
- the wind 'blows dust' after 462
- the wind blows away footprints after 462
- things that foretell 531
- things that make the people afraid 1048
- those who return and those who die outright 1106
- time of 250
- to 'stand' 458
- unsuccessful hunting after 716
- uxoricide 1080
- ways of dying 253
- what children are taught about 854
- what Dia!kwain's mother told him about 462
- what happens after 526, 532
- what happens at the time of 526
- what happens when people die 462, 879
- what happens when someone is about to die 461
- what Hare tells people about 363, 364, 365
- what parents teach their children in the event of their 413
- what the dead man wears 1049
- what |han≠kass'o's grandfather, Tsatsi, told him about 854
- when a person's snoring does not lie down 782
- when darkness obstructs the animal's eyes 849
- when heart falls 250
- when hearts 'fall' down 722
- when sorcerers seek people to take away 525
- when sorcerers want to kill people they change into birds and jackals 430
- when the heart 'falls' during 'snoring 720
- while 'snoring' 720
- why Bushmen kill hares 1092
- why the dead harm the living 854
- wife-killing 1080
- wishing 'a fight' upon another 910
- wishing it upon others 497
- women become mere spirits 1102
- women become snakes if they die of snakebite 1102
- women intoxicated by the Maiya leave for another country and are killed there 1086
- Xurri ko killed by a lion 383
- |kaggen and the Moon and 37
- |kaggen as the hartebeest feigns 101
- |kaggen brings his son back to life 666
- |nu-!ke or magicians who have died still possess power 446
- |xam beliefs about 462
- |xam killed by black men 779
- |xannan |xannan asked for wind 538
- |xue and his father 1039
- |xue and his father fight and die and shoot at each other 1038
- |xue and his mother and father 1038
- |xue and his parents and child 1045
- |xue and the ostriches 1028
- |xue as ostrich and other things 1025
- |xue dies and changes form 1036
- |xue dies and goes into his fire 1045
- |xue dies and is eaten 1039
- |xue dies and is eaten by flies 1025
- |xue dies and lets flies eat him 1028
- |xue dies and returns in a different form 1033
- |xue dies and returns to life in other forms 1031
- |xue dies as a large bird 1028
- |xue dies in different forms 1028
- |xue does not really die 1017
- |xue had not died altogether 1045
- |xue is sometimes dead and sometimes alive 1017
- |xue kills his child 1026
- |xue kills his father 1033
- |xue lives and dies 1017, 1039
- |xue's father makes him a grave 1045
- |xue's father returns to life because he is |xe ||n'u and does not die outright 1045
- |xue's wife comes to life at sunset 1045
- |xue, his father and changes 1036
- ||kabbo tells of 219

decayed piece
- called Foulmouth 187
- cuts off its thigh 187
- of Muishond 187
- talks to Lion 187
- tells thornbush to pierce Lion's feet 187
- the Lion and the Muishond 187

Dia!kwain
- a speech made by the sorceress !kwarra-an 397
- about his relations 437
- accounting for his father's name 502
- advised by his grandfather to swallow the ostrich's lungs whole and raw 406
- and his aunt, Ttanno !khauken the sorceress 433
- and his father Xaa-ttin's song about the death of the sorcerer !nuin-|kui-ten 459
- and his travels with Jan Plat 572
- and Jan Plat at Charlton House, Mowbray 571
- and sorceress !kwarra-an 397
- and the 'Boers' or Dutch 461
- and the angry rain 511
- and the apparition of a little child 532
- and the broken string 459
- and the thunderstorm 511
- and the |nu-!ke or magicians who have died and who still possess power 446
- and |xannan |xannan, the wind-sorceress 538
- caused his mother to be struck by lightning 511
- caused lightning to strike 511
- David Hoesar 117, 124
- David Huzaar 117
- David Huzar 117
- different spellings of his 'Boer' name 117
- disobeyed his mother 511
- explanation of the name which his mother gave him 495
- feeding his child 429
- foresaw his father's death 461
- game once tame: why it grew wild 490
- genealogy of 117
- his ancestors 456
- his brother Ko-bbo became ill after eating Ttanno !khauken's springbok 433
- his brother Ko-boken and the !ho 499
- his brother-in-law, Mansse 532
- his brothers and sisters 437
- his cousin Ttai tchuen and the lioness 450
- his dream 461
- his dream of the death of his father 461
- his explanation of his mother's little name 479
- his family threatened 435
- his father asks the dead rainmaker, !nuin-|kui-ten, for rain 456
- his father is Xaa-ttin 502
- his father Xaa-ttin was taught magic by the sorcerer !nuin-|kui-ten 458
- his father Xaa-ttin's chippings 554
- his father Xaa-ttin's prayer for rain 456
- his father's name is Xaa-ttin 461
- his fight with the 'Kafir' who strangled his throat 400
- his first wife was called Mietje 429
- his grandfather !xugen-ddi and the tame game 490
- his grandfather asks |xannan |xannan for wind 536
- his insides ached when one of his people was dying 461
- his mother ≠kamme-an's prayer to the spirit-people 446
- his mother's little name was |ko-an 479
- his people roast and eat the porcupine on the hunting-ground 627
- his personal history 124, 397, 400, 429, 433, 435, 437, 441, 445, 450, 456, 458, 461, 479, 490, 495, 499, 502, 508, 511, 532, 536, 538, 554
- his place 532
- his relations 435, 450, 456, 461, 499, 532
- his relations killed by sorcery 435
- his sister |a-kkumm and the lion 445
- his travels with Jan Plat 571
- his uncle |uherre and his power over ostriches 442
- his wife's burial 429
- how his mother removed the evil influences of bad dreams 465
- Jan Plat leaves Calvinia with 572
- made the rain angry and want to kill them 511
- mode of eating porcupine 627
- names of relations of 117
- personal history of 117
- place of 117
- played the !goura in a thunderstorm 511
- plays the bow in a thunderstorm 511
- sees an apparition returning from his wife's funeral 532
- springbok and gemsbok knew the death of his wife 429
- the actions of the game that foretold his wife's death 429
- the advice his mother gave him about the tortoise 124
- the death of his father 461
- the death of his wife 429
- the giving of his uncle |kai kwa's name 441
- the harm done to his relations 400
- the names of his relations 400, 437, 441, 456, 461, 508, 532, 554
- the naming of his brother Ko-bbo 435
- the naming of his brother-in-law, Mansse 508
- the tale of a wise person or sorceress 397
- was advised by Snore-White-Lying 429
- was healed as a boy 397
- was snored by sorceress !kwarra-an 400
- what Jan Plat heard about 572
- when he left Mowbray 572
- Xaa-ttin's accident 502

dialect
- !Ora, or 'Hottentot' 946
- 'the other part of our language' 775
- a language that is different 775
- and rock painting copy no. 2 801
- Kareebergen Stuurmansfontein 96, 97
- Katkop, given by ≠kasin 107
- Katkop, words given by ≠kasin 113
- Namaqua 946
- names of animals given at the SA Museum 107
- of Stuurmansfontein 304
- of the !kun or 'Ongova Bushmen' of Hereroland 948
- of the 'River Bed people', or Tka-sso !keten 775
- of the |ke |ke ||en 775
- of |xam 775
- of |xam spoken by 'Grass Bushmen' 801
- spoken by 'Berg' or 'Mountain Bushmen', or !kaogen !ke 775
- spoken by |han≠kass'o's fellows 775
- spoken in Bushmanland 775
- understanding another Bushman's language 775
- |xam 96, 304

dictionary 10, 142
- 10, 142
- !Ora, or 'Hottentot' 946
- given by Adam Kleinhardt 2
- given by |a!kunta 4
- Namaqua 946
- names of animals 12
- names of animals given by |a!kunta in the SA Museum 31
- Setshuana 946
- words and sentences given by ≠kasin 47
- words and sentences got at Breakwater 139
- words and sentences including the name of a poison 48
- |xam 31

diet
- and Day's Heart 45
- eating of baboons 224
- of animals and people 45
- of cattle 579
- of different groups of |xam 224

different
- !kuken !kakka !ani, the Ostrich which is 38
- and Day's Heart 45
- animals which are 260
- Lynx is 45
- |kaggen and !goe !kweitentu 38
- |kaggen's fight with 38

different things
- the Sun and Moon are 32

digging
- 'pot's hole' 823
- 'stick's hole' 823
- actions while 316
- and collecting Ssho |oa 314
- and edible plants found near water 757
- and killing 'Bushman rice' 317
- and sieves used by the Early Race 861
- and the ignorant man who digs up Ssho |oa 316
- and where Ssho |oa is found 312
- by a Ssho |oa's man 316
- by men and women 832
- by women for main roots 757
- for !haken 668
- for !haken and 'Bushman rice' 861
- for 'Bushman rice' 659
- for food 668
- for Ssho |oa 309, 312
- for the earth used to make clay pots 823
- is women's hunting 317
- out of 'Bushman rice' 662
- safe 316
- Ssho |oa's-digging 316
- stick used by men and woman 832
- teaching of 316
- the man spits into the Ssho |oa's hole so it may know him 314
- the use of the digging stick 659
- various foods and the protection of the rain for a fungus 668
- ways of 316
- what man says to the Ssho |oa so it may know him 314
- |kaggen and Koro-tuiten 659

digging stick
- !kwa !kwa wood 57
- and tools used by the |xam 57
- from springbok's horn point 57
- is thrust into a bored stone 57
- used by men, with no stone 832
- used by women, weighted by a stone 832

digging-stick stone
- and the making of arrows 851
- the !kui 851
- used to straighten reeds 851

direction
- of a new water–pool 859
- signs made on leaving a place to show 859
- where the people have gone 859

Dirk
- !xein, son of Dootje 774
- the younger brother of |han≠kass'o's grandfather Tsatsi 774

discourse
- and the Jackal's speech 263, 266
- Day's Heart star's 263, 266
- Ichneumon's to |kaggen 269
- of the Day's Heart star to his daughter 256
- the doings of the jackals 263
- what the Day's Heart star says to his daughter 262

dish
- and !nanna-sse 707
- and the treatment of bones 733
- bones placed in 707
- of an ostrich breastbone for the porcupine's bones 733
- ostrich breast-bone made into 707

divining
- !kun methods of 1050
- 'assents to me about the thing' 1042
- by the !kun 1042
- four pieces – two male and two female 1042
- future events 1050
- it is a 'Bushman institution' 1042
- methods 1042
- performed by men 1050
- the Hare's pieces 1057, 1092
- the Hare's pieces are made of giraffe's skin 1092
- the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman 1092
- the Makoba call the set |nu |num 1042
- the Moon and the Hare and |xue 1057
- the pieces of wood used 1057
- the pieces of wood used by the !kun of !nanni's country 1050
- the set of pieces, or |xu 1042
- the wood pieces used for 1042
- the |xu, or wood pieces used 1050
- what is used for 1042

divining pieces
- and the !ke tree 1050
- are respected and feared by women 1050
- feared by the daughter/women 1050
- handled by the son/men 1050
- only handled by men 1050
- the set called |xu 1050
- the wood used 1050
- used by the father 1050

doctor
- Dr P.G. Stewart 176
- white 176
- ||kabbo's visit to 176

doctoring
- by old women 717
- healing 717
- of the sorcerer's arrow-wounds 717
- see healing 101

doctoring ceremony
- more about |xue 1033
- performed by |xue for his father 1033
- |xue kills his father and performs one 1033

dog
- a ceremony performed by maidens so that their father's dogs should hunt well 507
- an incantation to 507
- and !khwe-|na ssho-!kui 283
- and a girl's saliva 507
- and a review of the parade 883
- and animals eaten 794
- and breaking a bone of the game that it has killed 507
- and hunting baboons 552
- and its successful hunting of game 507
- and Jackal's song 86
- and new maidens 507
- and the ceremony performed by the new maiden 507
- and the Jackal's plant 794
- at the parade 883
- baboons are ashamed of a girl's 552
- baboons fears a girl's 552
- belonging to !gou !nui 603
- called 'Blom' 603
- defending and protecting it from baboons 552
- given to Tsatsi by |gappem-ttu which kills many jackals 745
- hunting dog 86
- hunting with one 161
- is a girl's thing 552
- is bewitched by the new maiden 507
- jackal crosses its spoor 86
- that leaves game 507
- that plays with game 507
- that took ||kabbo's tobacco bag 603
- the plant used for healing one that is sick 794
- the protection of 507
- the young Lion used as a hunting dog 283
- Tsatsi's 745
- used for hunting 552
- used for hunting jackal 745
- when its heart becomes bad 507
- |xui tatin and the dog 74
- ≠kasin hunts with 337

Dog
- called !kuin'ssi-|kauoken 894
- of the Early Race 894
- the young He-Dog who poisoned his wife the Quagga 894

dogs
- and Mr Stow's picture of the dance of sorcerers 434
- and ≠kasin's hunting adventures 349
- belonging to black men 810
- how they are revived 1086
- hunting with 349
- in rock painting copy no. 9 810
- of Tamme's country do not tire 1005
- the imitation of gemsbok and dogs in the ||ken dance 434
- the odour of the Maiya plant makes them faint 1086
- used by |xam as protection from lions 260
- which are called 'wind's dogs' 810

drawing
- !nanni's, of the |kui 1108
- with ||hara and tto 767

drawings
- made by Dia!kwain's father 473
- made in rooi klip, or red haematite 473
- on ostrich skin and rocks 473

dream
- about 461
- and avoidance of the name of the lion 421
- and death 1002
- and doctoring 1002
- and premonition 425
- and the Jackal's speech 266
- and the trance dance 1001, 1002
- and Xwerri-kau's story 424
- and |kaggen and Great Tortoise 212
- as a presentiment or prophecy 461
- as an omen of death 461
- description of 1002
- Dia!kwain's spoke like a person 461
- dies when the ill person is doctored 1002
- does not deceive 461
- enters the country 1002
- foretells death 461
- in Tamme's country 1002
- in which Tamme sees his mother 1002
- in which |kaggen predicts the death of the !khau 906
- in which |kaggen predicts things 906
- it puts a 'thing' in people 1002
- its apron is made of ko o 1002
- its back-dress is made of mouse's skin 1002
- its body is small and resembles a person's 1002
- its heart aches 1002
- its house 1002
- its house is small and made of grass and resembles that of a bird 1002
- kills a person 1002
- kills people because its heart aches 1002
- lions dream and have premonitions 424, 425
- lions which 266
- makes people ill 1001, 1002
- of !nanni and Tamme's country 1002
- of a gang of prisoners 831
- of death 461
- of family 214
- of rain 214
- of the lion 421, 424, 425
- of the man who falls upon the Lion 24
- or premonition 614, 615
- or ||gan-a 1002
- people who stand making gestures kill it and it is no more 1002
- puts a 'thing' into a person 1001
- says 'Naaaa' 1002
- speaks the truth 461
- speaks to many people 1002
- that Dia!kwain had before he heard of the death of his father 461
- the !kwai !kwai, |kaggen and the children 615
- the Lizard, the Mice and |kaggen 906
- the son of |kaggen, the Baboons, and |kaggen 666
- the |kain |kain, the girls and |kaggen 614
- what Tamme's people told him about 1002
- |han≠kass'o's 831
- |kaggen and !goe !kweitentu 38
- |kaggen's 212, 293, 614, 615, 753, 906
- |kaggen's dreams 38
- |kaggen's of the Meerkats' possessions 94
- |kaggen's premonition about the Beetle and the Mice 753
- |kaggen's, that he takes away all the Tick's things 293
- |kaggen's, that the !khau is killing the Long-nosed Mice 906
- |kaggen, the Mice and the Beetle 753
- |kaggens, that Baboons have killed his son 666
- ||kabbo's 214, 248
- ||kabbo's, of lions which talked 268

Dream
- ||kabbo’s other name is 714

dreaming
- about successful and unsuccessful hunting 824
- and sneezing 215
- and tactics in springbok hunting 824
- and ||kabbo's personal history 215
- of family 215
- of home 215
- of wives 215

dreams
- 'deceive' 287
- about 465
- and a beating of the flesh which tells the |xam things 287
- and a prayer or address to the Moon 465
- and collecting food 465
- and death 854
- and evil things 465
- and life after death 854
- and misfortune 465
- and modes of addressing the rain 811
- and presentiments of things that are going to happen 287
- and rain 811
- and rainmaking 811
- and the rituals performed by Dia!kwain's mother 465
- and the unfavourable actions of food and prey 465
- are called spirits, or ||gan-a by the !kun 1020
- are spirits 1020
- bad- 465
- cleansing 465
- dreaming about the dead if their names are said by night 854
- fires cleanse evil from them 465
- getting rid of the evil influence of bad 465
- go about with people 465
- go into the fire 465
- lie 287
- of an angry rain 811
- of rain-sorcerers or rainmakers 811
- old men's 811
- presentiments are like 492
- rituals performed to remove evil influences 465
- that it 'lightened' 811
- that make it rain 811
- that rain will fall 811
- the monster ||khwai-hemm's speech and 88
- their influence on daily life 465
- |kaggen and !goe !kweitentu 353
- |kaggen and !kaken-!kaka-!k'aui 221
- |kaggen's 88, 221, 353
- |xam beliefs about 287

dress
- actions performed with 998
- after death 1049
- and !kun customs at death 1049
- and Mr Stow's picture of the dance of sorcerers 434
- and Ssa ka Kumm 475
- and Stow's picture no. 3 of sorcerer's ||ken dance 529
- and the youth who warned those at home of the approach of a Koranna commando 844
- Bushmen carry quivers and wear monkey skin front aprons 1056
- cat–skin is worn by |ku-te-!gaua 667
- dancing rattles made of springbok ears worn 600
- dancing rattles worn in a dance 599
- dead man wears jackal's feet and tail and skin 1049
- dead man's father dresses body 1049
- how the Blue Crane vainly sought for !kuommain |ka ||kau and was killed and eaten by the Lions 925
- identified by |han≠kass'o in rock painting copy no. 2 801
- jackal-skin back apron worn by dead man 1049
- made of genet 998
- made of weasel 998
- names and descriptions of things worn 391
- of groups of people 801
- skins 801
- skins worn for gathering poisons 1053
- sorcerers wear steenbok in their dance 529
- the 'war things' worn by the Koranna commando 844
- the Anteater's laws 200
- the back-dress 998
- the Blue Crane's cap, skin cloak and petticoat 925
- the dream's back-dress and apron 1002
- the front-dress 998
- the skin 'petticoat' of the woman who becomes a lion 6
- the skins used to make 998
- the sorcerer's gemsbok cap 434
- the ||ken dress 434
- what adult women wear 925
- what men and women wear in the dance 599
- what the people eat and wear 200
- worn by !kun men 998
- worn by !nanni's father 998
- worn by different peoples in !nanni and Tamme's country 974
- worn by man who has shot an eland 475
- worn by people made by |xue's son 1056
- worn by sorcerers in the ||ken dance 434
- worn by sorcerers in their ||ken dance 529
- worn by the !kun to gather poison 1053
- worn by |xue 1056
- worn in dance 600
- young gemsbok's horns worn 434
- |kaggen prepares Blue Crane's things 925
- |kaggen wants cat–skin 667
- |ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen 667
- |ou horn worn by dead man 1049
- |xue and his son 1056
- |xue wears a monkey's head front apron, its tail, a back apron of monkey feet 1056

Driedoorn
- and tactics in springbok hunting 824
- stick used in the making of the !nabbe, a tail-hair brush 672
- sticks of used in to make feather brushes for springbok hunting 824

Driedoorn tree
- !nabba 726
- and the !khau lizard and the rain–clouds 613
- and|a!karaken killed by a lion 726
- how the people make the !khau descend 613
- the !khau lies in 613
- the !khau must descend it so rain–clouds will bring rain, and springbok 613
- wood used in the making of the |khu or the 'Bushman soup spoon' 585

Driving Away
- fetches the short horn 622
- her mother rewards her with food 622
- is on guard at home 622
- is the younger daughter 622
- or Ssuai-ssuai-||a-|uhan 622
- sings 'Be quickly flying' 622
- tells her mother when men come courting 622
- the She-Rhinoceros and her elder daughter's suitors 622

drought
- and hunting 751
- and the 'killing' sun 751
- and the disappearance of game 751
- and the finding of food 751
- and the role of children in hunting food 751
- and the west wind 596
- and the west wind that turns back the rain 593
- and want of rain 596
- during which |han≠kass'o's grandparents almost died 751
- fetching water and finding food during 596
- is caused by people killing frogs 742
- its effect on the people and fauna and flora in Bushmanland 742
- locusts vanish during 742
- people become lean during 742
- places where food is found during 596
- plants vanish during 742
- rain protects frogs 742
- springbok vanish during 742
- the finding of gambro 596
- thirst and hunger 596
- what is eaten during times of 742
- which caused |han≠kass'o's grandparents to starve 751

drum
- a description of 1067
- an account of a dance 598
- and a dance 599
- and drumming during the dance 599
- beaten by a woman in a dance 598
- beaten during the trance dance 1001
- called !gauru 1067
- is beaten by women 599
- is beaten with hands 1067
- made and used by the !kun 1067
- makes men dance well 599
- of springbok skin 599
- the making of 1067
- the method of playing 1067
- the preparation and making of 599
- the sound of 599
- the use of a pot for 599
- the use of sinew on 599

dust
- and beating karosses on the ground 497
- and Dia!kwain's dream of the death of his father 461
- and locusts 637
- and sorcery 497
- and the son of the Wind 644
- and the use of signals 800
- and what happens when people die 462
- as a signal 800
- as an omen of death 461
- causes misfortune and illness 497
- from the whirlwind the !khau goes into 678
- is not a good or friendly thing 497
- kills people 497
- made by the girl 637
- the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food 678
- the girl who made locusts 637
- the south wind makes dust 594
- thrown into the air so people at home can see it 800
- thrown up by a man who feels he is going to die in the sun 800
- thrown up by the man to signal he needs help 800
- wind 'blows dust' after death 462
- wind and stars 878
- wind blows 644
- wind that blows up 878

Dutch
- 'Boer' 146, 583, 1112
- 'Boer' names for sheep 144
- 'Boers' 104, 458, 461, 467, 554, 577, 703
- and !nuin-|kui-ten who was a sorcerer or magician 458
- and Dia!kwain's dream of the death of his father 461
- and Dia!kwain's father 461
- and personal history of prisoners 104
- and the family of |han≠kass'o 577
- and Xaa-ttin's chippings 554
- and |han≠kass'o 577
- and |han≠kass'o's personal history 577
- and |uma's capture 1112
- at the place where Dia!kwain lives 461
- commando 467
- its use in Jemima Bleek's 'Hottentot' interviews with Piet Lynx 2024
- masters 104, 583, 1112
- or 'Boer' names of stars 366
- personal histories of |xam 583
- see also 'Boer' 55
- the 'Boer' who beat Jan Plat's brother Ruyter to death 539
- the commando that killed !nuin-|kui-ten 458
- the great Bushman doctress and sorceress Ttanno !khauken who did not understand Dutch 436
- the mist foretells the approach of a commando 467
- the time before they came 554
- their attacks on the |xam 467
- their gunpowder and -shot are exhausted when they hunt springbok 703
- their relations with the !kun 1112
- who Dia!kwain worked for 461
- |xam relations with 467, 583
- |xam who speak and don't speak it 436
- |xam-speaking people 55

Dutch man
- or 'Boer' 489
- who killed Hendrik Ronebout's father 489

dzana
- frightens away other animals 1087
- taps on a dry tree, or |ßkao 1087
- the behaviour and habits of 1087

ear
- by the |xam 18
- jewellery 18
- piercing 18

ear-piercing
- by the |xam 18

Early Race
- !gaunu the Star was formerly a person 517
- !khwe-|na ssho-!kui 283
- !kotta-kkoe, his brother, ostrich eggs and Korannas are all people of 884
- !kwa-!kwa and !kwa-kau are trees and people 835
- !yoa-ka-ttu, the Blue Crane and the girls are people of 888
- 'ancient race' 420
- 'Flat Bushmen' teach history of First Bushmen 297
- 'long ago' 126
- a man falls upon the Lion 5
- a note on the First Bushmen 297
- a song of the First Bushmen 85, 692
- a story of the 5
- a story of the First Bushman 283
- a time when Baboons and Quagga were formerly people 540
- a very old language of people who died before the First Bushmen lived and the |xam name for them 88
- accounting for the nature and habits of quaggas and baboons 540
- and an explanation of the eclipse of the Moon 301
- and Anteater's laws 198, 199, 200
- and creation of the Sun 297
- and eating hare's meat 863
- and foolish men of the Early race, who do not understand 388
- and frog's story 375
- and further details of the men who hunted Lions with bones 759
- and girl who created Milky Way 285
- and Heron's song 85
- and how !gabbaken-!gabbaken punished his wife for making personal remarks 676
- and how the people called the lion ||kuamma 759
- and maiden's story 375
- and man with sore thigh 376
- and men of !khwe |na ss'e !k'e, or First Bushmen 388
- and new maidens 126
- and people who became frogs 375
- and remarks by |han≠kass'o on the story of the death of the !khau 697
- and stars and flowers 517
- and story of the Leopard Tortoise, |go ka kkumm 388
- and the !kain who snatched off the hair of the Ostrich's head 905
- and the !khau 697
- and the !khau carried off by a Lion 768
- and the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food 678
- and the !koa or Muishond 692
- and the 'man's' part of the hare that is not eaten 863
- and The Blue Crane's story 925
- and the creation of the Bushmen 1092
- and the creation of ≠nabbe ta !nu by the First Bushman girl 319
- and the Day's Heart star 862
- and the death of the !khau 696
- and the First Bushman girl carried away in whirlwind 323
- and the foolish girl who married a Baboon 767
- and the Frog's story 925
- and the girl who made locusts 637
- and the grandmothers, !kwa-!kwa and !kwa-kau 835
- and the Hyena's revenge 843
- and the Koranna commando destroyed by the ||ua 761
- and the Lioness and her adopted daughter, Tssi-!kuara |hin or Biting-Torn-Away 835
- and the man who ordered his wife to cut off his ears 675
- and the man who went to sleep when out hunting alone 384
- and the men who hunted Lions with bones 756
- and the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- and the Quagga who was poisoned by her husband, !kuin'ssi-|kauoken or the young He-Dog 894
- and the song of the !khau's child 691
- and the song of the Blue Crane 85
- and the song of the young woman of, as she returned home 932
- and the speech of animals 899
- and the speech of the ostrich 899
- and the story of !gwa !nuntu and the Elephants 618
- and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara 862
- and the story of the Ratel and the Waterskilpad 404
- and the time when there were no Bushmen 1092
- and the woman eaten by the Baboons because she was fat 556
- and the young man of put into a mouse skin who becomes a lion 752
- and the young man who was changed into stone, by the glance of a new maiden 506
- and the young man who was transfixed by the new maiden 126
- and the young woman who disobeyed her mother, and fell in with the two Lions 929
- and the youth who warned those at home of the approach of a Koranna commando 844
- and things of First Bushmen 375
- and transformation 752
- and what people eat and wear 200
- and |gwai who killed his sister-in-law, and was killed by his brother-in-law 838
- and |kuken-|u |unu 722
- baboons and quaggas where formerly people of 558
- beasts of prey were once people of 763
- Ddi xerreten and the Lioness are people of 837
- dig for !haken and 'Bushman rice' 861
- Early Times 126, 198
- food eaten by 678
- Koro-tuiten was formerly a man of 659
- language of 88
- or First Bushmen 285, 323, 746, 748, 750, 756, 759, 763, 767, 884, 925, 926, 928, 929, 932
- or First Bushmen, or !xwe ||na ss'o !kui 691, 692
- or the First Bushmen 835, 837, 840, 843, 844, 858, 862, 892, 898, 899, 904, 905
- or the First Bushmen, or !xwe ||na ss'o !kui 821
- Quagga makes flour 564
- stars and flowers in the early times 517
- the !gwiten who was 'niggardly' to his wife 840
- the !kain, the Ostrich and the !khau are all people of 905
- the !khwe |na ss'e !k'e 384
- the !khwe |na ssho !ke 298
- the !xwe ||na ssho !kui 618
- the Anteater's curse 892
- the Anteater, the young Springbok, the Lynx and the Partridge are people of 892
- the Baboons and the ≠gebbi-ggu 541
- the Baboons who ate human beings 555
- the children of 297, 752
- the children of First Bushmen throw the sleeping Sun into the sky 298
- the cursing of the Vultures 858
- the Fieldmice are people of 752
- the First Bushmen 88, 126, 319, 375, 384, 452, 540, 618, 675, 752, 772
- the First Bushmen or !khwe |na ss'e !k'e 386
- the First Bushmen or !xwe ||na ss'o !kui 697
- the First Bushmen who preceded the 'Flat Bushmen' in their country 298
- the First Bushmen's things grow at water–spring 375
- the First Bushmen, or !khwe |na ss'e !k'e 376
- the First Bushmen, or !khwe |na ssho !ke 300, 301
- the First Bushmen, or !xwe ||na ss'o !kui 696, 722
- the first people 297
- the First People or Bushmen 676
- the First People, or Bushmen, or !xwe ||na ss'o !kui 678
- the Frog, the Blue Crane, the Beetle and !kuommain |ka ||kau are people of 925, 928
- the girl of, who killed the children of the Rain 748
- the Hare was formerly a person of 863
- the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman 1092
- the history of 297
- the Hyenas, the Jackals, the Blue Cranes and the Black Crows are people of 862
- the Korhaan marries his elder sister 199
- the Lion becomes a star 17
- the Lion is a person of 752
- the Lion's story 376
- the Lion, the Jackal, the Tortoise and the Hyena are people of 843
- the monster ||khwai-hemm's speech and 88
- the names of animals when they were people 772
- the occasion on which the story 'The girl of the Early Race who killed the children of the Rain' was related to |han≠kass'o 750
- the old people 85
- the old woman who sends the children to throw up the sleeping Sun into sky 300
- the Quagga and Baboons were formerly people 564
- the Quaggas, the Blue Crane, the Hyenas, the Jackals, the young He-Dog and the Tortoise are all people of 894
- the Rain carried away the new maiden 126
- the Rain carries off a young woman of, in the shape of a bull 741
- the Rain in the form of an eland was shot by one of 746
- the Ratel and the girls of 821
- the Ratel was formerly a man 404
- the reason why the ostrich does not click 899
- the song of the Springbok mothers 893
- the Star was once a child 517
- the story of !khwe-|na ssho-!kui: the man who took a young Lion, and made use of it as a dog 283
- the story of |kua ka khumm 386
- the time of the First Bushmen 619
- the time when animals were formerly people 541
- the two Lions and the Blue Crane are people of 926
- the two Lions, the Lizards, the Blue Crane, the Rhebok and the Black Crow 772
- the Vultures and their elder sister are people of 858
- the Wild Dog and his wife are people of 840
- the Wildebeest, the Mice, the Quaggas and |kaggen are people of 904
- the Wind was formerly a man in the Early Times 645
- the young man of, who falls asleep and is taken away by the Lion 420
- the youths of 752
- the ||ua or Fox was a person of 761
- their brushes resemble a certain kind of grass 754
- their sieves were called !yuiten 861
- used sieves for sifting !haken 861
- were people who were foolish 675
- when 'Bushmen were springbucks and cried' 619
- when all things were people of 763
- when animals were people 540, 555, 676, 678, 692, 696, 697
- when people were foolish 676, 678, 692
- when the Ostrich was human 899
- when the Porcupine was a man 452
- when the Ratel was formerly a man 821
- when the Springbok became people 619
- when the Star formerly sang of its elder sister 517
- when |kaggen shot the 'springbuck' 619
- when |kuken-|u |unu ate the girls 722
- when ≠nerru and her husband were people 885
- why Baboons, Lions and Ostriches became animals 541
- why the ratel is like a man 404
- |kaggen and Koro-tuiten 659
- |kaggen, the Mice and the Beetle are people of 753
- ≠kainyatara and the Ostrich are people of 898
- ≠nerru was formerly a person of the 885

Early Times
- see Early Race 645

ears
- piercing of 193
- the foolish man who ordered his wife to cut off his ears 675
- |xue and a woman 1055
- |xue asks his wife to cut his off 1055

earth
- a man throws up after becoming faint from the heat of the sun 800
- called 'pot's hole' 823
- digging for 823
- dust signals 800
- is pounded on skin 823
- making the 'stick's hole' 823
- mixed with male grass 823
- the kind used to make clay for pots 823
- the pounding of 823

earthquake
- a description of 525
- actions performed by mothers during 525
- and death 525
- and falling stars 525
- and sorcerers 525
- and sorcerers seeking and taking people 525
- and sorcerers who kill people 525
- and the death of a sorcerer 493
- and the protection of children's hearts 525
- and the treatment of children who are alarmed 525
- falls down from heaven 525
- is not good 525
- its effects 525
- makes children ill 525
- reasons for 525
- rituals performed in relation to 525
- seeks people who will die 525
- shakes the ground 525
- startles children's hearts 525
- teachings about 525
- the noise it makes 525
- what people do when they hear 525

east
- ≠kagara's fight with !haunu in the 901

east wind
- blows strongly 595
- how people shelter from 595
- is called !kaua 595
- is cold 595
- its place 595

eating
- and hunger 157
- by men 16
- by women 16
- customs regarding 124
- food avoidances 124
- grown-ups do not eat tortoise 124
- jackal 16
- of tortoise 124
- of tortoise by children 124
- prohibitions about 124
- prohibitions regarding 16
- the advice Dia!kwain's mother gave him about the tortoise 124
- when hungry 124

eclipse
- an explanation of the eclipse of the Moon 301
- and shadows 89
- and the earth 89
- and the sky 89
- how people make the sun come out 873
- of the Moon 301
- of the sun 89, 873
- the children laugh at and anger the Moon 301
- the people beat together sticks and shoes during 873
- the people's actions during an 89
- what is done when there is one 873
- what men and women do 873
- what the people call it 873
- when the sun becomes small 873
- when the sun goes into the sky 873
- ||kabbo's experience of an 89

education
- 'Flat Bushmen' teach history of First Bushmen 297
- a new healer has other healers' 'work' 'snored' in to his veins 396
- a note on the First Bushmen 297
- about !nanna-sse 474
- about 'fire-scent' and beasts of prey 431
- about actions when hunting game 520
- about avoiding eating the porcupine's neck 412
- about beasts of prey 442, 445
- about beasts of prey and the crying of the strong wind 537
- about collecting water safely 447
- about death and falling hearts and stars 526
- about eating and avoiding certain foods 563
- about falling stars 526
- about fortune and blood during hunting 442
- about hunting 424
- about hunting and the Moon 514
- about hunting observances 520
- about killing a 'stretched-out thing' 442
- about killing game and hunting observances 474
- about lions 385, 450
- about magic things 521
- about methods of making clay pots 823
- about moths and the killing of game 470
- about new maidens 126
- about observances relating to porcupine hunting 729
- about porcupines and the rain 453
- about respecting locusts 915
- about respecting locusts and locust birds 523
- about respecting magic things 523
- about respecting sorcerers 434, 436
- about respecting the !koroken !koroken or telephonus bird; about some of its doings 562
- about respecting the rain's things 521, 852
- about returning home safely after hunting 442
- about shooting game 520
- about sitting in the shade 463
- about snakes 842
- about sorcerers 396, 491
- about sorcerers and earthquakes 525
- about sorcerers and their things 521
- about stars and game 520
- about swallows that are rain's things 521
- about the !ho or whirlwind 499
- about the actions of rain 452
- about the actions of the owl and the black crow 431
- about the angry rain and thunderstorms 511
- about the consequences of standing at dawn 499
- about the doings of the lion 447
- about the early morning and its doings 569
- about the game and the stars 520
- about the making of arrows 919
- about the making of barblets or ||kuken 919
- about the Moon, its doings and finding food 468
- about the owl's conduct 445
- about the power of lions 447
- about the rain 817
- about the rain and its things 411
- about the treatment of sorcerers 434
- about things that foretell the approach of lions 431
- about throwing shadows in the early morning 525
- about watching the sun 442
- about what names to be avoided 826
- advice and warnings hunting leopards 483
- and !nuin-|kui-ten who was a sorcerer or magician 458
- and a Rain story 395
- and avoidance behaviour relating to lions 447
- and avoiding throwing stones at locusts 915
- and Dia!kwain who played the bow in a thunderstorm 511
- and Dia!kwain's uncle |uherre's power over ostriches 442
- and eating certain parts of the game 424
- and falling stars 491
- and foolish actions 853
- and how Dia!kwain disobeyed his parent's instruction 511
- and killing an eland 475
- and Mr Stow's picture of the dance of sorcerers 434
- and observing the game 427
- and prohibitions relating to morning on the hunting–ground 499
- and Ssa ka Kumm 475
- and the !ho and Ko-boken 499
- and the actions of the game 471
- and the brother of the maiden taken up in a whirlwind who became the Porcupine 453
- and the fatal hunting adventure of !kwai-!kwa and his companion 483
- and the great Bushman doctress and sorceress Ttanno !khauken 436
- and the owl, believed to foretell the coming of the lion 827
- and the springbok's story 427
- and the story of the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- and the use of the term ddabba-i 853
- and the ||ken dance 434
- and Ttai-tchuen, with a lioness who had young cubs 450
- and understanding 853
- and understanding the actions of the game 427
- and warnings 447
- and what the man did to his wife when she was pregnant 389
- and what |han≠kass'o's grandfather, Tsatsi, told him about the dead and life after death 854
- and what |han≠kass'o's grandfather, Tsatsi, told him about the owl 827
- and Xwerri-kau's story 424
- and | a khumm called by a lion 385
- avoidance of eating the porcupine's 'neck-lumps' 453
- avoiding attacks by lions 450
- avoiding looking at the Moon 468
- becoming a sorcerer 396
- by elders 411
- children about life after death and avoiding saying the names of the dead at night 854
- children about what they can eat 424
- children must not play with the porcupine's bones 729
- children not to play with Ttanno !khauken's name 436
- children taught to use another name for the lion 423
- digging for Ssho |oa taught by a Ssho |oa 's man 316
- doings with food 750
- girls and youths must avoid the rain's things 411
- girls are advised by grown-up people 411
- how people should take care of themselves on the hunting-ground 442
- how to escape lions 450
- how |han≠kass'o's wife, Ssuobba-||ken, learned to make clay pots 823
- hunting observances 514
- of a 'great story', 'great things' 413
- of children 750
- of children about avoiding the lion's name 421
- of children about lions 423
- of children about owls, lions and flies 827
- of children about respecting the locust bird or ||kerri 916
- of children by old people 842
- of children by their elders 853
- of children by their parents how to get food 413
- of children concerning the rain and eating tortoise 852
- of children not to play at the water 447
- of children to respect the lion's fly 827
- of children to respect the Moon 874
- of children, that an ostrich eggshell, left open, will attract snakes 842
- of girls 411
- of healers 397
- of hunting observances 475, 515
- of new maidens 452
- of new maidens by old women 126
- of sorcerers 458
- of the actions of things 431
- of the bad consequences of looking at the Moon 514
- of the consequences of a child's eating the springbok's tongue-tip 563
- of the consequences of playing with springbok bones and skin 709
- of the hunting-ground's doings 424
- of the kkoroken ritual or preventing the sneeze 515
- of women who teach each other to make clay pots 823
- of young men 411
- of young women by their mothers 817
- of young women who must be silent and hide from the rain 817
- putting away meat for children 750
- rainmakers teach people to help them 395
- respecting |kaggen's things 471
- sorcerers are taught by other sorcerers 396
- springbok possess magic arrows 709
- teaching understanding 854
- teachings about, 'understanding' the doings of lions 385
- telling stories 750
- that sneezing is to be avoided when game is shot 515
- the actions of the game 424
- the coming of |kaggen foretells the shooting of a hartebeest 471
- the consequences of standing at dawn 500
- the foolish man who was not instructed properly 389
- the foolishness of the man of the Early Race who cut open his wife 389
- the ill effects of the !ho: a whirlwind 500
- the Moon not to be laughed at 874
- the Moon not to be looked at, when game is shot 514
- the tale of a wise person or sorceress 397
- the |goro or ostrich's moth foretells the killing of ostriches 481
- treatment of meat 750
- treatment of |kaggen 471
- Ttai tchuen lived because of remembering what she was taught 450
- Ttai tchuen was a girl who understood 450
- understanding Ssho |oa's language 316
- warnings about the early morning and its doings 500
- what |a-kkumm's mother told her about owls and lions 445
- what |han≠kass'o's grandfather, Tsatsi, told him about saying the name of a star man 826
- what |han≠kass'o's relations told him about the rain 852
- Xaa-ttin who was taught magic by the sorcerer !nuin-|kui-ten 458
- Xwerri-kau was badly brought up 424
- | a khumm understood what she was taught 385
- |han≠kass'o and ||hoaken !khe were told by Tsatsi not to throw stones at locusts 915
- |han≠kass'o's grandfather Tsatsi ordered him not to throw stones at the locust birds 916

eggs
- bird's 1004
- names of bird's 143
- names of in !nanni and Tamme's country 1004
- of !kuken !kakka !ani, the Ostrich which is different 38
- |kaggen and !goe !kweitentu 38

eland
- a description of the ceremony for cutting up its meat 475
- a man's exclaiming makes it live 819
- and another version of what |kaggen did with honey 352
- and avoidance behaviour 478
- and hartebeest are loved by |kaggen 819
- and hartebeest are |kaggen's things 819
- and hartebeest belong to |kaggen 414
- and honey 624
- and how the Ichneumon discovered what |kaggen did with the honey 351
- and hunting observances 475, 478
- and Ichneumon 351
- and Ichneumon's fight with Xara 348
- and Jackal and Lion 343
- and Lions and Jackals 341
- and origin of Moon 205
- and Ssa ka Kumm 475
- and story of the Lion and the Jackals 342
- and the creation of the Moon 624
- and the reeds 624
- and the scent of people 475
- and the |kaggen 475
- and urination 475
- and |kaggen 392
- another version of the story of the Lion and the Jackals 343
- beating with its tail 475
- breaking wind and hiccoughing when eating its fat 475
- called 'meat' by men 868
- ceremonies for cutting it up 478
- ceremonies for the killing of 476
- ceremonies in cutting up 478
- crossing its spoor 475
- doings of the |kaggen when the eland has been wounded 819
- dying from poison 819
- eats honey 207
- fat 475, 478
- formerly ate honey 392
- gall from the one created by |kaggen 50
- gall is pierced by |kaggen 205
- gall of 205
- grows in the water 624
- has magic power 414
- hunted and shot by a man of the Early Race 746
- hunting 475, 476
- hunting of 414
- is a 'magic thing' 478
- is a magic thing 475
- is created by |kaggen 207
- is feared and respected 475
- is Jackal's prey 342, 343
- is killed by Meerkats 207
- is killed by the brothers 352
- is killed by |kaggen's people 351
- is protected by |kaggen 414
- is shot by Jackal 343
- is stolen by Lion 342, 343
- is |kaggen's 'child' or pet 624
- is |kaggen's pet 207, 351
- is |kaggen's thing 414, 475, 819
- is |kwammana's shoe 207, 624
- its 'death's urine' 819
- its actions when shot 476
- its flesh in tree 207
- its flesh is hung on a tree 207
- its flesh vanishes and burns away in the fire 746
- its gall 37, 207, 624
- its gall and the creation of the Moon 50
- its magic powers 475, 478
- its other name 868
- its story or Ssa ka Kumm 475
- killed by Meercat 205
- killing 475
- lean 475, 478
- lives in reeds 351
- looking away from 478
- observances of the !kun 1076
- observances when hunting 310
- people do not eat the rain's eland 746
- prohibitions when hunting 475
- recovers from its wounds 414
- respect for 414, 476
- respecting 478
- respecting with certain observances 1076
- rises dead on mountain 343
- shot by Jackal 342
- shot by Jackal and taken by Lion 341
- that is not eaten 746
- the actions of 624
- the actions of |kaggen when one has been shot 476
- the actions performed by the hunter of 414
- the actions with the arrow used to shoot it 475
- the ceremony for killing 475
- the creation of 624
- the dish of its fat 343
- the fear of making it lean 478
- the Rain in the form of 746
- the rain was formerly 746
- the reasons for its colour 392
- the Xara and the Ichneumon 348
- the Xara hunts 348
- the |kaggen tries to make it live 475
- urination on 414
- vomits from poison 819
- ways of approaching it when it is dead 478
- what is done when one has been shot 475
- what the hunters say 478
- what |kaggen does when one has been shot 310
- which is |kaggen's pet 352
- |kaggen 'does not love us if we kill an eland' 819
- |kaggen and the creation of the Moon 50
- |kaggen and the hunting of 476
- |kaggen and the man who shoots it 819
- |kaggen and the Moon and 37
- |kaggen calls it '|kwammana's shoes' 624
- |kaggen calls its name 351
- |kaggen created it 819
- |kaggen feeds it honey 351, 352
- |kaggen fights its fight 351
- |kaggen is beaten on its horns 351
- |kaggen makes 624
- |kaggen makes an eland 624
- |kaggen sits between its horns 414
- |kaggen strikes its horn 819
- |kaggen wants his to live 476
- |kaggen wants it to live 414
- |kaggen's 819
- |kaggen's pet 205

Eland
- and Anteater's laws 198

eland's gall
- and the creation of the Moon 624
- covers |kaggen's head 50
- creation of the Moon with 37
- from an eland |kaggen created 50
- in the tree 37
- is pierced 50
- is pierced by |kaggen and breaks 37
- is thrown into the sky 37
- |kaggen and the Moon and 37
- |kaggen creates the Moon from 50
- |kaggen makes an eland 624
- |kaggen pierces it 624

elephant
- !kun name of 1063
- -mother 991
- -mother pulls her young out of the game pit 991
- and the digging of pits 997
- and the game pit 991
- animals eaten by the !kun 1063
- eating 1006
- falls into a game pit 991
- Hu'-we or |xue becomes 1091
- little 991
- making veldskoen from skin of 8
- respecting and fearing the elephant's heart 1006
- sharing its heart 1006
- skin 8
- the burial of the little elephant 997
- the hunter does not eat its heart or one will kill him another day 1006
- the little elephant 'slept' 997
- the little elephant at the foot of the !goa tree 997
- the mother and the father dig a pit for the little elephant 997
- the mother lifts the little elephant out of the pit 997
- the mother lifts the little elephant out of the water 997
- the mother puts the little elephant in the water 997
- |xue as tchaxa 1024
- |xue becomes 1024
- |xue eaten by vultures in form of 1024
- |xue's father-in-law cuts 1024

Elephant
- and Springbok kid 369
- appearance of calf of 118
- calf 369
- calf of 118
- does not speak 'nicely' 118
- herd 369
- how an Elephant steals a young Springbok from |kaggen 118
- insides of cut up 118
- is a man 118
- its 'ear's shadow' 369
- relations of 118
- speech of 118
- swallows the little Springbok 118
- the calf's answer to |kaggen 118
- the Elephants are armed with assegais 118
- the herd of Elephants 118
- the Springbok's kid, who was carried off by the Elephants 369
- the young Elephant is beaten and killed 369
- the young Elephant replaces Springbok kid 369
- the young Elephant was 'other people's' child 369
- when Elephants are people 118
- |kaggen enters navel of 118
- |kaggen exits trunk of 118
- |kaggen tracks spoor of 118
- |kaggen's pet Springbok carried off by 118

Elephants
- !gwa !nuntu and 618
- that steal !gwa !nuntu's child 618
- the 'Old Woman' 618
- the children of 618
- the house of 618
- the little Elephant 618
- the Mother Elephant 618
- the Mother who swallows !gwa !nuntu's child into her body 618
- the smell of the Mother Elephant's stomach 618
- their chests make !gwa !nuntu sleepy 618
- their travelling party 618
- were people 618

elephants
- hunted and traded by !nanni's people 1007
- killed Tamme's or !nanni's aunt 982
- the !kun hunt them to trade with the Makoba for food 1007
- the Makoba get the !kun to hunt them 1007
- tusks for cattle 1007
- tusks traded 1007

enchantment
- and glance of new maiden 184

Englishman
- all came out of one hole 1147

engraving
- chipping no. 4 771

European tinderbox
- making fire 882
- tinder–making 882

Europeans
- comparison between |xam and European methods of articulation 889
- speak with the tip of their tongues 889

evening
- 'cooling' 701
- 'It is coolness' 936
- 'It is the mouth of coolness' 936
- 'This is just the time of the sunset' 936
- and greetings at 936
- and hunting springbok 701
- wind, weather and springbok hunting 701

ewe
- its call to its young imitated by Jan Plat's aunt Natta in the ≠gebbi-ggu 561

eye
- !goe !kweitentu's eyes are in his feet 38
- |kaggen and !goe !kweitentu 38

eye's warts
- and the monster ||khwai-hemm's speech 88

eyes
- !kun men cut between 1071
- bloodletting 1071

falling hearts
- and the death of the girls cursed by |kuken-|u |unu 722

falling stars
- actions performed to do with 491
- and babies 491
- and dead sorcerers 491
- and death 491, 493, 531
- and more about sorcerers 494
- and sorcerers of illness 491
- and spitting 491
- and the actions of nursing mothers 491
- and the actions of sorcerers 491
- and the actions of women 491
- and the death of babies 491
- and the magic powers of sorcerers 491
- and the rain 491
- are the sorcerers' falling hearts 493
- evil 491
- fall as an omen 493
- falling hearts resemble 531
- go into the waterpit 491
- know things and are feared 493
- resemble fires 491
- rituals and ceremonies performed to do with 491
- sorcerer's hearts fall like 491
- sorcerers hearts become when they die 494
- teachings about 491
- the sounds they make 491
- their actions and appearance 491
- their light 491
- what they say 491

family
- !kun 1050, 1072
- !kun structures of 1079
- a man respects his wife's mother 1079
- and !kun marriage customs 1078
- and a snake which announces a death 1100
- and divining the future 1050
- and marrying 'another country's man' 1080
- and the roles of different members 1050
- and the treatment of a widow 1078
- and the treatment of mothers-in-law 1080
- and the treatment of the wife 1080
- and the treatment of wives/women 1050
- and the treatment of women 1080
- and uxoricide 1080
- and wife-killing 1080
- fear or respect for the wife's mother 1079
- genealogical information concerning |han≠kass'o and his 577
- marrying into another 1079
- methods of addressing different members of 1079
- personal histories of |xam 583
- structures 1072
- terms of address for members of, siblings, in-laws 1080
- the !kun structure of 1080
- the care for a dead man's 1078
- the husband is a stranger, or a 'different person' 1080
- the old care for the young 1072
- the parents-in-law 1079
- the tasks performed by various members 1072
- the treatment of the old 1072
- widow married by her dead husband's next brother 1078
- wives collect food to feed their husbands 1080

famine
- food eaten when there are no springbok 627
- mode of eating porcupine 627
- what is eaten in periods of 627

fat
- 'Europeans' give the |xam 679
- accounting for the white chest of the crow 380
- and the making of clay pots 823
- around the neck of the !kagen Crow 609
- crows and secretary birds 609
- eaten by |xam 299
- gets feathers 299
- girls are eaten by |kuken-|u |unu 722
- its 'feet' 299
- manner of dividing 679
- new and white 299
- of 'Bushman rice' 299
- of the Quagga who was poisoned by her husband 894
- poor people share 679
- real 299
- rubbed inside clay pots 823
- rubbing with 679
- sharing 679
- the Crow's story 380
- the eating of 679
- the Hyena and the Jackals cry at losing 894
- the preparation of 679
- the Quagga's is boiled in the pot 894
- the rendering of 679
- tied on the throat of the Crows 380
- used to seal clay pots 823
- uses for 679
- wet and dry 299
- why the crow's neck-feathers are white 609
- women eat 299

father
- and !kun customs at death 1049
- and dress after death 1049
- more about |xue 1033
- the dead man's dresses and arranges the body 1049
- |xue and his mother and father 1038
- |xue and his parents and child 1045
- |xue as !naxane and butterflies and with people who are afraid 1054
- |xue kills his 1033
- |xue performs a doctoring ceremony to revive his 1033
- |xue searches for his 1054
- |xue's 1033, 1036, 1038, 1045
- |xue, his father and changes 1036

father-in-law
- addresses the relatives of the dead man 1094
- and further particulars regarding purification 1098
- and purification after shooting a person 1093
- and what the man says while cleansing himself 1094
- further changes of |xue 1031
- his role during purification 1098
- his role in the purification ceremony 1093, 1094
- |xue and his 1021
- |xue and his parents and child 1045
- |xue as tchaxa 1024
- |xue is a spirit 1026
- |xue's 1024, 1026, 1031
- |xue's kills his father 1045

feather
- and |kaggen's creation of the Moon 624
- becomes the Ostrich 66
- creation of the Moon from an ostrich feather 50
- feathered arrows and poison 661
- of the ostrich used to make barblets or ||kuken on arrows 919
- ostrich 624
- resurrection of the Ostrich and 66
- the making of barblets using an ostrich wing-feather root 919
- the Moon and the little Hare and 66
- which becomes the Moon 624
- |kaggen creates the Moon from an one belonging to the ostrich 50
- |kaggen makes an eland 624

feather brushes
- and tactics in springbok hunting 824
- called !xui-!xui 824
- grass that resembles 754
- made from feathers rolled onto a Driedoorn stick 825
- preparation of thongs for 824
- red ||ka is painted on the Driedoorn sticks of 824
- the feathers used for 824
- the making of 824
- the making of thongs for 825
- the preparation of 824, 825
- the use of ostrich feathers in 825
- the use of the Driedoorn stick 824
- the ||kuain plant is used for smoking the ostrich feathers 824
- used for driving springbok 824
- used in springbok hunting 825

feathers
- and 'Bushman rice' 299
- and tactics in springbok hunting 824
- and the making of arrows 851
- and the monster ||khwai-hemm's speech 88
- and the preparation of brushes used for springbok hunting 824
- and |kaggen and !goe !kweitentu 239
- and |kaggen and Great Tortoise 212
- and |kaggen takes away the Tick's sheep 293
- are attached to the shaft 851
- are cut 851
- are pressed into place 851
- are smoked using the ||kuain plant 824
- bartering of ostrich 222
- fat of 'Bushman rice' gets feathers 299
- from ostrich 824
- kinds used 824
- names of different 824
- ostrich 222
- ostrich feathers used to make barblets for arrows or ||kuken 918
- rolling them 824
- the !kwai !kwai, |kaggen and the children 615
- |kaggen and !goe !kweitentu 38
- |kaggen and !kaken-!kaka-!k'aui 269
- |kaggen and the Cat 211, 240
- |kaggen gets 210, 239, 240, 243, 269, 615
- |kaggen gets feathers 293
- |kaggen grows 211
- |kaggen pretends he has left one of his veldschoens behind and becomes a Lion 243
- |kaggen's arm's 38, 88
- |kaggen's arm's feathers 212
- |kaggen, the Ichneumon and |kammanga go to Lion's house 210

feet
- !goe !kweitentu's eyes are in his toes 38
- |kaggen and !goe !kweitentu 38

Fieldmice
- are people of the Early Race 752
- are shot at, killed and skinned by the children of the Early Race 752
- Day's Heart and 45
- resemble lions 752
- the method of calling them out of their holes 752
- the youth of the Early Race put into a mouse skin who becomes a lion 752
- their name is 'mouse' 752

Fieldmouse
- accounting for the noise it makes 77
- chest of is broad 77
- exchanges its chest with the Lion 77
- inhabits a hole 77
- is little 77
- Lion and 77
- the Lion wants chest of 77

fight
- 'anger's fight' 88
- and bad weather 901
- and exchange of poison arrows 309
- and how the Ichneumon discovered what |kaggen did with the honey 351
- and lightning 901
- and saying the lion's name at night 829
- and the fights of |kaggen 88
- and the monster ||khwai-hemm's speech 88
- and the Moon's burning of the Hare's mouth with a heated stone 114
- and the rain 901
- and the rain and weather 900
- and the sorceress who snored Dia!kwain's throat 400
- and thick clouds 901
- and |kaggen takes away the Tick's sheep 293
- baboons and the ≠gebbi-ggu 541
- between !nanni's uncle and grandfather 1041
- between and ≠kagara and !haunu 900
- between Day's Heart and Hyena and Jackal 45
- between Dia!kwain and a black man 400
- between Ostrich and Hyena 60
- between the Hare and the Moon 363, 364, 365
- between the Lion and the Ostrich's over the ≠gebbi-ggu 541
- between the Mice and the Beetle 753
- between the Moon and the Hare 332, 464
- between the Ratel and the Waterskilpad 403
- between the She-Rhinoceros and her elder daughter's suitors 622
- between the Xara and the Ichneumon 348
- between |kaggen and !goe !kweitentu 38, 88, 239, 353
- between |kaggen and !kaken-!kaka-!k'aui 269
- between |kaggen and !kuken !kakka !ani 38
- between |kaggen and striped jackals 38
- between |kaggen and the Baboons 666
- between |kaggen and the Cat 211, 240
- between |kaggen and the elephants 118
- between |kaggen and the Meerkats 207
- between |kaggen and the Ticks 612, 787
- between |kaggen and the Xara 351
- how an Elephant steals a young Springbok from |kaggen 118
- in the east 900
- lion comes to, with us 829
- of the Meerkats and |kaggen 37
- of the Moon and the Hare and the origin of death 114
- on the hunting-ground 38
- reconciliation after 309
- the death of !nanni's uncle 1041
- the Lions and the Ostriches 406
- the Moon and the Hare: a version at first by ≠kasin and then by Dia!kwain 363
- the Moon and the Hare: a version by Dia!kwain 364
- the Moon and the Hare: a version by ≠kasin 365
- the Moon punishes the Hare 332
- the She-Rhinoceros 'makes dust' 622
- the She-Rhinoceros is 'a fight's thing' 622
- the son of |kaggen, the Baboons, and |kaggen 666
- the ≠gebbi-ggu's 541
- Ticks are 'fight's people' 293
- using Ssho |oa during and after 309
- with lightning 900
- |kaggen and the Moon and 37
- |kaggen and the Ticks 88
- |kaggen fights the eland's fight 351
- |kaggen is a 'fighting man' 293
- |kaggen picks fights with others 353
- |kaggen's angry actions 88
- |kaggen's with the Ticks 293
- |kaggen, the Mice and the Beetle 753
- ≠gebbi-ggu's 406
- ≠kagara and !haunu's in the east 901

fighting
- and cutting by Korannas and the |xam 311
- Korannas cut the back of their right wrists when they fight with their fists 311

fights
- between |ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen 667
- Ichneumon rebukes |kaggen 241
- |kaggen picks with others 667
- |kaggen's ill deeds 241

finger
- cutting tips off 193

fire
- 'fire-scent' and beasts of prey 431
- a male one is made to disperse the rain 813
- a woman 'chases' a man with 779
- accounting for appearance of the hyena's back parts 401
- accounting for the appearance of the korhaan 405
- and an angry rain 274
- and cooking 272
- and driving lions out of reeds 260
- and Ichneumon's discourse 272
- and owl, believed to foretell the coming of the lion 827
- and purification after shooting a person 1093
- and stars and flowers 517
- and the actions of the owl and the black crow 431
- and the appearance of the Hyena 45
- and the Korhaan who marries his elder sister 199
- and the making of arrows 851
- and the making of tinder 882
- and the manner in which the |xam 'twirling kindle fire' 882
- and the story of !kui-!kaxu or 'Pained Chest' 779
- and the use of the tinderbox 439
- and tools used by the |xam 57
- and |ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen 667
- angers rainmaker 274
- at the cats' lair 667
- chasing owl with 827
- Day's Heart and 45
- disperses rain 274
- further changes of |xue 1031
- how the Jackal deceived the Hyena 401
- Hyena is burnt in 401
- is made cool 667
- its tongue 851
- Korhaan marked by 199
- Kwa-kkwara's head is burnt in fire by the girl's elder brother 405
- made by people who fear the darkness's rain 813
- making of 57
- making one using two sticks from an arrow shaft 882
- making one without tinder 882
- making with two pieces of sticks 882
- manner of carrying wood for making 725
- moths that burn in and foretell the killing and roasting of game 470
- protection from 667
- stars burn like 517
- stem of |khu, or 'Bushman soup spoon', used to scratch it together 585
- the cleansing 1093
- the Driedoorn is used to make 882
- the Lion and the Hyena 1009
- the making of 272, 439
- the people make 272
- the Phyllomorpha paradoxa or withered-leaf insect must not burn in 652
- the preparation of tinder 439
- the scent of and the approach of lions 431
- the story of the Kwa-kkwara 405
- the tinderbox which is used 882
- the wood used in making 882
- the |goro or ostrich's moth burns in the people's, predicting the successful killing of ostrich or finding of eggs 481
- things 1009
- throwing an ostrich breast-bone shovel at lions 283
- used to smoke and colour arrow-shafts 851
- |kaggen and his cat–skins burn in 667
- |ku-te !gaua enters, and draws out cats 667
- |ku-te-!gaua's song to 667
- |xue and his parents and child 1045
- |xue as ostrich and other things 1025
- |xue dies and goes into 1045
- |xue fears 1025
- |xue has none at another place 1045
- |xue is burnt with 1031

fires
- and getting rid of the evil influence of bad dreams 465
- and locusts 638
- cleanse dreams 465
- making 638
- making them when it rains 638
- must be made at the place where the locusts settle 638

firewood
- how it straps on 725
- manner of tying on 725
- methods of carrying 725
- the strap or sling used to carry 725
- the thong used to bind 725
- the use of bushes as 725
- xuain 725

First Bushman
- the story of !khwe-|na ssho-!kui, who took a young Lion, and made use of it as a dog 283

First Bushmen
- and death 219
- and Heron's song 85
- and the song of the Blue Crane 85
- children of throw sleeping Sun into the sky 206
- create Sun 298
- Early Race 85
- eat their 'Bushman rice' 298
- of the Early Race 619
- preceded the Flat Bushmen 206
- see Early Race 17, 283
- the !khwe |na ssho !ke 298
- the children of, who throw sleeping Sun into sky 298
- the Early Race 298
- the old people 85
- their language 298
- their path to great hole 219
- their relations 298
- understand 298
- were once 'springbucks' or Springbok and cried 619
- who preceded 'Flat Bushmen' in their country 298
- |kaggen changed the springbok into 619

Flat Bushman
- ||kabbo is 176

Flat Bushmen
- 'Flat's folk' 262
- a note on the First Bushmen 297
- about their poison 223
- all of their doings 272
- and Ichneumon's discourse 272
- and the children of First Bushmen throw the sleeping Sun into the sky 298
- and the making of a needle from a springbok's foreleg 440
- do not eat baboons 224
- how they make poison 223
- inhabit First Bushmen's ground 297
- live on plain 224
- teach history of First Bushmen 297
- the First Bushmen preceded them in their country 298
- the needle they use for sewing 440
- their diet 224
- their doings according to discourse of Day's Heart star 262
- their doings according to discourses of Day's Heart star 256

Flat's people 260
- 260

flesh
- 'quivers' 102
- a beating felt in which tells the |xam things 287
- a man's 101
- and how a man's dies 101
- and Moon and Hare story 464
- and presentiments of things that are going to happen 287
- and remarks concerning copies of Bushman pictures nos. I-XXIV 578
- and the Baboons who ate human beings 555
- and the brother of the maiden taken up in a whirlwind who became the Porcupine 453
- and the cursing of the Baboons 555
- and the woman eaten by the Baboons 558
- becomes cold 102
- becomes cold and dies 101
- death of 66
- dies from coldness 102
- hare-meat contains a piece of human flesh 464
- hartebeest's 101
- moves 102
- of food animals 66
- of human beings eaten by Baboons 555
- of quagga resemnles a person's 558
- of the porcupine's is the rain's legs 453
- of the rain 578
- porcupine's does not resemble that of other things 453
- removing poison from a man's 101
- that dies 102
- that is dead 101
- that is living 101
- that moves 101, 102
- that quivers 101
- the !khau who brought home his own as food 678
- the Moon and the little Hare and 66
- warm 102
- where the hail sits in the porcupine's 453
- |kaggen's 101

flies
- and avoidance behaviour relating to lions 447
- and lions 266
- and the Jackal's speech 266
- and the lion 447
- are eaten by sorcerers 721
- inform the lion 447
- spy on the people 447
- tell lion that a person intends to fetch water 447

flood
- and the rain's 'pot' which fell on Victoria West 812
- at Victoria West 812
- caused by sorcery 812
- sorcery's bell 812

flour
- or meal 564
- Quagga makes 564
- sieving 564
- the making of 564

flowers
- and !gaunu 517
- and !gaunu's song 517, 518
- and honey 272
- and Ichneumon's discourse 272
- and new maidens 531
- and ostriches 272
- and seasons 272
- and stars and death 531
- and the stars 517
- are girls the rain has taken away 531
- found at Mowbray in spring 743
- found in Bushmanland 743
- maidens become 531
- must be left alone 531
- names of 518
- prohibitions regarding 531
- resemble the stars 517
- stars and flowers 517
- the ||garraken flower 518
- the ||garraken is asked by !gaunu to open 517
- the ≠ku yam 517
- the ≠ku yam flower 518
- their appearance 517
- their budding, sprouting and opening 517
- times of the year and the stars 517
- water- 531

fly
- a cloud of things that resemble flies, which cause illness 497
- and avoidance of saying the lion's name 421
- and children taught to use another name for the lion 423
- and respecting the lion 827
- and the bad consequences of beating the kaross on the ground 497
- and the owl, believed to foretell the coming of the lion 827
- avoidance of the name of the lion 421
- children must not blow on 827
- comes out of the lion's armpit 827
- flies into lion's ear 421
- flies tell the lion things 423
- hears people say the lion's name 421
- its actions 827
- listens to people 421
- smells like the lion 827
- spies for the lion 421
- startles lion awake 421
- tells the lion when a child makes light of it 827
- tells the lion when its name is spoken 423
- the beast of prey's 827
- the colour of 827
- the consequences of insulting one 827
- the lion's 827
- the ostrich's 827
- the treatment of 827
- |xue as a ||gui tree and fly 1032

food
- !kani plant 125
- !kerri 766
- !kkuisse 45
- !kotta-kkoe, his brother, ostrich eggs and Korannas 884
- !kouwi 766
- !kui-ssi roots 389
- !kuiten bulbs 757
- !kun methods of preparing and cooking 975
- !kusse 766
- !nuanna 766
- 'Bushman rice' 45, 57, 101, 250
- 'Bushman rice' resembles !haken 654
- 'Joik uije' plant 125
- 'seeking feed ourselves' 413
- 'things' made by |xue 1057
- 'water food' 1097
- -tree, also used for making divining pieces by the !kun of !nanni's country 1050
- a beating felt in which tells the |xam things 287
- a bird called ≠xo gure eaten by the !kun 1089
- a description of 597
- a girl does not eat the porcupine's tail 735
- a moth which foretells the killing of game 470
- a prayer for the finding of 1040
- a snake which is not eaten 1100
- about new maidens 360
- abstaining from eating during purification 1097
- and !haken 653
- and !kerri berries 627
- and !nanna-sse 474, 707
- and 'Bushman rice' 322
- and 'playing' with meat 698
- and 'when we shoot our death' 708
- and a !kun prayer to the young moon 1040
- and a prayer asking the stars to allow the people to see the game 876
- and a prayer to a star 876
- and a snake which announces a death in the family 1100
- and a story of rainmaking 275
- and an address or prayer to the stars Canopus and Sirius 322
- and an incantation to the Moon and stars 14
- and avoidance behaviour 474
- and children 750
- and Dia!kwain's uncle |uherre's power over ostriches 442
- and digging 57, 317
- and getting rid of the evil influence of bad dreams 465
- and Heron's song 85
- and how an old woman asked a chameleon for rain 355
- and hunger 627, 750
- and hunting 272, 668, 1090
- and hunting hare 173
- and hunting observances 474, 520
- and Ichneumon's discourse 272
- and intoxication 996
- and killing 'Bushman rice' 317
- and men's hunting 317
- and Moon and Hare story 464
- and pots of the Ticks 787
- and prayers to the young moon 1043
- and rain-making 393
- and respect for the rain 852
- and shooting game 1090
- and stars 366
- and stars and game 520
- and teaching children about what they can eat 424
- and the actions of the moon 1090
- and the beating of the stone on ground 442
- and the brother of the maiden taken up in a whirlwind who became the Porcupine 453
- and the drought which caused |han≠kass'o's grandparents to starve 751
- and the eating of !naxane 1077
- and the girl who made the Milky Way 285
- and the habits of porcupines 734
- and the jackal's actions with its 743
- and the locust bird or ||kerri 523
- and the names of stars given by ≠kasin and Dia!kwain 366
- and the new maiden who ate ostrich marrow without the knowledge of her people 482
- and the protection of the rain for a fungus 668
- and the purification ceremony 1093
- and the rain 1090
- and the reasons for the colours of the gemsbok, the hartebeest, the eland, the quagga, and the springbok 392
- and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara 862
- and the story of the Quagga who makes flour using a sieve 564
- and the successful killing of game 474
- and the young moon's story 1043
- and times of day 272
- and tools used by the |xam 57
- and want of rain 596
- and what is done with a 'new' maidens 381
- and what the man did to his wife when she was pregnant 389
- and what the stars say 877
- and widow's story 253
- and women's hunting 173, 317
- and Xwerri-kau's story 424
- and |kaggen and !kaken-!kaka-!k'aui 221
- and |kaggen and Koro-tuiten 659
- and |kaggen turning into a hartebeest 101
- and ||xabbitten ||xabbitten's story 504
- animals that are eaten 794
- animals that are not eaten 903
- ant eggs 57
- asking game sorcerers for 442
- asking stars for 876
- avoidance behaviour relating to 698
- avoidance behaviour relating to the eating of certain 504
- avoidance of eating hare-meat 464
- avoidance of tortoise and the rain's things 852
- avoidances 16, 124, 163, 973, 975, 1006, 1060, 1070
- avoidances and lions 424
- avoidances and prohibitions regarding 124
- avoidances of the !kun 1100
- avoidances relating to 504, 794
- avoided by adults 903
- avoided by the !kun 996
- avoided by women 708
- avoiding certain 745
- avoiding eating certain parts of rain's things 453
- avoiding eating the 'human part' of the hare 863
- avoiding eating the rain's things 794
- called |kui 1095
- catching and eating lizards 931
- catching, cooking and eating ostrich 15
- children do not eat a jackal's heart 744
- children eat a leopard's heart 744
- children eat the lizard called ||horu 931
- children must not eat the backbone of things 424
- cleansing 1095
- cleansing with 1093
- collecting 173, 465
- collecting different 668
- consequences of eating certain 975
- cooking and drinking water and rain 275
- cooking and eating hyena 169
- cooking and eating jackal 745
- cooking and eating of ostrich eggs 159
- cooking of 45, 163, 200, 272
- cooking of cleansing food 1093
- cooking ostrich meat 222
- cooking the Maiya 1086
- creation of 1057
- Day's Heart and 45
- Dia!kwain advised by his grandfather to swallow the ostrich's lungs whole and raw 406
- different kinds of eaten by the |xam 272
- different types of 627, 668
- digging and sifting !haken 862
- digging for 125, 668
- digging for !haken and 'Bushman rice' 861
- digging for and eating 'Bushman rice' or ant larvae 659
- distribution of porcupine meat 736
- dividing and sharing 627
- dividing or sharing 679
- doings with 750
- drinking ostrich eggs 269
- drinking ostrich eggs using a gemsbok tail brush 884
- driving, collecting, hunting and eating locusts 657
- eaten after a cleansing ceremony 1093
- eaten after shooting game 520
- eaten and avoided by !nanni and Tamme's people 996
- eaten and avoided by children 744
- eaten and avoided by new maidens 381, 482
- eaten at different times of the month and year 1090
- eaten at different times of the year 766
- eaten before hunting 474
- eaten by black people north of the Orange River 860
- eaten by !kun men, women and children 956
- eaten by !nanni and Tamme 975
- eaten by !nanni's and Tamme's people 956
- eaten by adults and children 1070
- eaten by animals 45, 200
- eaten by animals and Anteater's laws 198
- eaten by cattle 579
- eaten by children 504, 563, 903, 931
- eaten by dead man's family 253
- eaten by different groups of the !kun 996
- eaten by different members of the group 731
- eaten by girls 411
- eaten by grasshoppers 1030
- eaten by married women 735
- eaten by men and bloodletting 1071
- eaten by men and women 16, 163, 627, 677
- eaten by old people 735
- eaten by people 200, 745
- eaten by peoples of Damaraland 951
- eaten by quaggas 564
- eaten by sorcerers 721
- eaten by Tamme 1089
- eaten by the !kan ||ka ||karashe and called ||kauru 954
- eaten by the !kun 951, 964, 975, 1005, 1006, 1070, 1090
- eaten by the !kun in |uma's country 1110
- eaten by the Early Race 861
- eaten by the gemsbok, the hartebeest, the eland, the quagga, and the springbok 392
- eaten by the hunter and his family 731
- eaten by the lion 283
- eaten by the maiden in a ceremony performed so that their father's dogs should hunt well 507
- eaten by the new maiden 285, 360
- eaten by the |xam 25, 45, 46, 57, 85, 101, 389, 584, 679, 766
- eaten by widows 253
- eaten by women 299
- eaten by women and girls 1070
- eaten by women, young girls, old people 794
- eaten by |xam 253, 654, 860
- eaten by ≠kasin and his relations 357
- eaten by ≠nuturu 653
- eaten during drought 596
- eaten for successful hunting 1006
- eaten in purification after shooting a person 1093
- eaten in the purification ceremony 1096
- eaten in times of drought 742
- eaten in times of hunger 627
- eaten when there are no springbok 627
- eating and bartering ostriches 222
- eating and cooking tortoise 124
- eating and hunting lynx 677
- eating black rhinoceros, or !na'bba 1063
- eating buffalo, or |kau 1063
- eating certain, and 'missing the game' 708
- eating during purification 1097
- eating elephant or !xo 1063
- eating gambro 742
- eating gemsbok, or !kau wa 1063
- eating giraffe, or ≠koa 1063
- eating gnu, or !ge 1063
- eating habits of animals 149
- eating hare 863
- eating hare-meat 464
- eating kabaka 1063
- eating locusts 523
- eating of tortoise by children 124
- eating ostrich and springbok 253
- eating ostrich eggs 884
- eating plants and berries 766
- eating porcupine 412, 453, 731, 736
- eating porcupine and hunting observances 734
- eating quagga, or !uha 1063
- eating rain's things prohibited 580
- eating slow and fast game 474
- eating springbok and hunting 474
- eating springbok backbone 653
- eating springbok flesh 855
- eating springbok heart 653
- eating springbok, or yara 1063
- eating springbok-breast 653
- eating the !gu !gu fungus 668
- eating the elephant's heart 1006
- eating the jackal's heart causes cowardice 745
- eating the Krieboom berry 85
- eating the Maiya plant 1086
- eating the mantis causes death 1060
- eating the porcupine's tail is avoided 734, 735
- eating the rain's things 355
- eating too much of the Maiya causes intoxication 1086
- eating white rhinoceros, or |khi 1063
- eating zebra, or !nan-u 1063
- eating |no 1063
- eating |u' ||ke' or Tshaka and ≠nabbi 1096
- eating ||kau'ku 1063
- eating ||na 1063
- edible plants found near water 757
- enjoyed by people 677
- feared by !nanni 996
- fed to new maidens 381
- finding and a prayer to the stars 322
- finding and drinking ostrich eggs 46, 221
- finding and hunting for 662
- finding and prayers to Moon 162
- finding and presentiments of things that are going to happen 287
- finding and the rain 393
- finding in !kun country 1077
- finding in drought 751
- finding in times of drought 596
- finding of and the 'Bushman rice's' star 299
- five types of berries and roots 766
- flesh 250, 253
- found and eaten by men and women 662
- found by women 299
- found by women and girls 101
- found in !kun country 975
- found in Bushmanland 597
- found in |han≠kass'o's country 597
- gambro 101, 250, 584, 596, 597
- gambro, or |kui 642
- gemsbok meat 45
- girls and youths must respect and avoid the rain's things 411
- girls find food 411
- given by 'Europeans' 679
- given to a beautiful woman 653
- given to the Bushmen by |xue in his bag 1092
- given to the successful hunter 707
- given to wives 653
- grown-ups do not eat tortoise 124
- honey 392
- hunger 876
- hunger for 125
- hunters do not eat the tail 734
- hunting and 'Bushman letters' 287
- hunting and the rain 1077
- hunting for 124, 751
- hunting springbok and rain 275
- hunting, preparing and eating of ostrich, 'chiansbok', springbok, khoran, hare and jackal 163
- hyena and lion 46
- hyena eats ostrich eggs 46
- ill-effects of eating gambro 642
- implements and utensils used in preparing and eating 668
- implements used in its preparation 855
- implements used to drink ostrich eggs 269
- is not collected near places 'dirtied' by jackals and hyenas 896
- is shared by poor people 679
- its fruit eaten by the !kun 1108
- Jacob Nein and the leopard 25
- killing frogs brings drought 742
- lean meat and fat 840
- lion eats food of darkness, of night 283
- locusts collected and eaten by |xam and black people 860
- luck finding 124
- lynx-flesh is eaten by men but not by women 677
- main roots 757
- making soup out of ostrich eggs 884
- meat 272
- men eat from the porcupine's backbone 736
- methods of cooking and eating porcupine 736
- methods of drinking ostrich eggs 222, 269
- methods of eating |kui 1108
- mode of eating porcupine 627
- moths foretell the finding of 470
- moths which foretell the killing of ostriches 481
- must be put away properly 743
- names of 46, 584, 766
- names of different foods and plants eaten by the |xam 101
- names of edible plants 355
- names of foods eaten by the xam 162
- names of foodstuffs 596
- names of plants and animals eaten by the !kun 964
- names of plants eaten 1110
- names of various 564
- new maidens and the eating of game 285
- observances 973
- onion 125
- only eaten by the old 668
- ostrich eggs 45
- ostrich flesh 45
- Ostrich was formerly a person and not a 'food's thing 406
- parents teach self-reliance 413
- parents' instructions regarding 413
- parts of the Maiya that are eaten 1086
- parts of the ostrich are not to be eaten by children 504
- parts of the ostrich not to be eaten by children 504
- parts of the porcupine avoided 736
- parts of the porcupine eaten 627
- parts of the porcupine that are eaten 731
- people do not put away meat for children 750
- places where it is found 596
- plants and animals eaten as 158
- plants and animals eaten by the !kun 951, 956, 996, 1008, 1008
- plants and animals eaten in !nanni and Tamme's country 1005
- plants eaten as 794
- plants found near water and eaten by people 757
- plants used in cleansing preparation 1093
- poisoned meat 272
- poisoned, is fed to !ko'-g !nuin-tara 862
- porcupine flesh is made into soup 730
- porcupine is eaten by men and women 730
- porcupine's flesh does not resemble that of other things 453
- prayers asking the stars for food and successful hunting 877
- praying to game sorcerers for 442
- preparation of 163, 200, 253, 272
- prepared by women 766
- prepared for new maidens 482
- prepared for purification 1093
- prohibitions against the eating of hartebeest by mothers with children 416
- prohibitions and avoidances relating to 563
- prohibitions regarding 163, 200, 744
- prohibitions regarding certain 903
- prohibitions regarding eating springbok 708
- prohibitions regarding eating the porcupine's neck-lumps 453
- prohibitions regarding that eaten by animals 149
- prohibitions relating to 474, 504, 736
- rain brings 355
- rain protects frogs 742
- Rainmaking and 125
- rejoicing before the stars when it is abundant 880
- respect for the !ke tsa'ba bird which is not eaten by the !kun 973
- respected by the !kun and not eaten 975
- respecting and eating the |no 1070
- respecting elephant's heart 1006
- seasonal 766
- seeking and collecting locusts 638
- sharing 736
- sharing and dividing of 668
- sharing the springbok meat 707
- Sirius and Canopus 880
- skinning and cutting meat 855
- sorcerers give people locusts to eat 523
- soup 253
- soup made of hyena flesh 21
- springbok bones 45
- springbok fat 45
- springbok marrow 45
- springbok meat 45
- stars seem as if they 'possessed food' 876, 877
- stinginess with 840
- taking care with, when it is plentiful 743
- teachings about 563, 996
- that is !xu, or abundant 880
- that is harmful if eaten at the wrong time 1090
- that is harmful to people 1090
- that is not swift 474
- that is poisonous 1090
- that strengthens poison 474
- that ≠kasin says he does not eat 357
- the !au or shaped rib-bone used for eating certain 584
- the !ka !karro insect which foretells the getting of food 469
- the !kan ||ka ||karashe is eaten by the !kun 954
- the !khau who brought home his own flesh as 678
- the 'gnawing' or eating of springbok bones 707
- the advice Dia!kwain's mother gave him about the tortoise 124
- the Anteater's laws 149, 200
- the careful storing of 743
- the cleansing preparation 1093
- the consequences of a child's eating of the springbok's tongue-tip 563
- the consequences of eating forbidden 504
- the cooking and eating of tortoise 355
- the cooking of porcupine flesh 731
- the cutting up and distributing of springbok flesh 707
- the digging out of 'Bushman rice' 662
- the distribution of porcupine flesh 730
- the eating and sifting of !haken and 'Bushman rice' by the |xam 861
- the eating of !haken 668
- the eating of !kabbi, or partridge 586
- the eating of baboons 224
- the eating of gambro 662
- the eating of game and a ceremony for hunting dogs 507
- the eating of hares 662
- the eating of hyena 996
- the eating of jackal 16
- the eating of korhaan 662
- the eating of leopard 25
- the eating of lion 996
- the eating of marrow is prohibited for new maidens 482
- the eating of porcupine 735
- the eating of the mantis is forbidden 1060
- the eating of the rain's things 794
- the eating of water plants, or tcha, during purification 1097
- the finding of 317, 413, 766
- the finding, pounding and eating of !kerri berries 766
- the gambro root 627
- the handling of by new maidens 482
- the handling of, and shooting game 520
- the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman 1092
- the ill–effects of gambro 742
- the jackal's 'plenty' 743
- the Lion was formerly a person and didn't eat raw food 406
- the Lions and the Ostriches 406
- the little porcupine 730
- the maiden eats meat the dog has caught 507
- the making of flour from !kauru berries 564
- the Moon and success finding 468
- the Moon and the Hare and |xue 1057
- the moon helps to find 1043
- the moon points it out 1043
- the names of 668
- the new maiden drinks and eats moderately 360
- the parts of springbok given to different members of the group 707
- the parts of the hare that are not eaten 863
- the parts of the porcupine that are eaten 730, 734
- the prediction of 481
- the preparation and collecting of 766
- the preparation and cooking of porcupine flesh 730
- the preparation of 668
- the preparation of 'Bushman rice' 299
- the preparation of meal or flour 564
- the preparation, sharing and eating of fat 679
- the rain and the finding of 275
- the Rain in the form of an eland shot by one of the Early Race 746
- the rain makes it plentiful 743
- the rain's eland is not eaten 746
- the rain's things are poisonous 580
- the rain's things must not be eaten 852
- the rain's things or !khoa ka ||kerri-ssi !kau 580
- the role of children in hunting for 751
- the sharing or distribution of porcupine meat 731
- the star appears well fed 876
- the stars are asked for 880
- the stars provide 880
- the taste of various 597
- the treatment of meat 750
- the treatment of springbok bones 707
- the unfavourable actions of food and prey 465
- the Wild Dog, or !gwiten, who was 'niggardly' to his wife with 840
- the wind and rain 1077
- the |kui root 627
- the |nu'she and the tt' e birds 1077
- the |xam eat 'Bushman rice' 299
- the ||kerri: a bird which eats locusts; and locust-hunting 657
- things eaten by the !kun 956
- tortoise must not be eaten by unmarried men and women 852
- Tsatsi does not eat the jackal's heart 745
- ugly, bad, hard, old things 253
- what !nanni's father told him to eat and avoid 996
- what children are taught about 750
- what children eat 412
- what is eaten when there are no springbok 662
- what parts of game should not be eaten by children 424
- what the |xam eat and the discourses of the Day's Heart star 262
- when the ≠gue-||na and the |khoro are eaten 1090
- where the hail sits in the porcupine's flesh 453
- which intoxicates 1096
- which is harmful if eaten at the wrong time of day 1096
- which is prepared for purification 1095
- wild animals eaten by the !kun 1063
- women dig for 757
- women hunt for 101
- women must not eat the springbok's shoulder blades 708
- women seek !naxane 1077
- |ka kau not eaten by people 587
- |kaggen and the Ticks 787
- |kaggen and ||khwai-hemm 788
- |kannu the rainmaker created locusts and gave them to the people 638
- |kui 57, 101
- |kuiten 584
- |nu'she bird eaten by !kun children 1085
- |u' ||ke' in food 1095
- |u' ||ke' is put into the |kui 1095
- |xam eat hyena 21
- |xam names of 597
- |xam names of that fed to animals by |kaggen 392
- ||khwai-hemm asks for and devours everything 788
- ||ki 392
- ||kuakken 766
- ≠kau a-ken 392

food animals
- death of 66
- the Moon and the little Hare and 66

foolish
- !gabbaken-!gabbaken who punished his wife for making personal remarks 676
- children are, and must be educated 750
- children do not understand 750
- men who hunted Lions with bones 756
- men who hunted Lions with bones - further details 759
- the !khau was 678
- the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food 678
- the First Bushmen were 678
- the man who ordered his wife to cut off his ears 675
- the people of the Early Race were 675, 676
- the younger brother who beat the Lion with a soft ostrich bone 759
- when people were 678

foolish man
- and Leopard Tortoise 388
- does not understand 388
- his hands decay 388
- ignores counsel 388
- is trapped by Tortoise 388
- of First Bushmen 388

footprints
- 'a person who rains' 879
- and what happens when people die 462
- blown away by the wind after death 462
- signs made on leaving a place 859
- the man follows signs and then the people's 859
- the people's 'footmarks' path' 859
- the rain washes away those belonging to a dead man 879

footsteps
- 'a person who rains' 879
- the rain washes out a dead man's 879

foreboding
- and the actions of the game 429
- of death 429
- or 'death-news' 429
- springbok and gemsbok knew the death of Dia!kwain's wife 429

foretell
- a moth which foretells the killing of game 470
- and Dia!kwain's dream of the death of his father 461
- and stars and death 531
- and the actions of the owl and the black crow 431
- death can be seen in water 531
- dreams foretell death 461
- dreams foretell things 461
- moths which foretell the killing of ostriches 481
- owl believed to foretell the coming of the lion 827
- presentiments are feelings which tell of something happening in another place 492
- the !ka !karro insect which foretells the getting of food 469
- the coming of |kaggen foretells the shooting of a hartebeest 471
- the Hamerkop tells news of death 531
- the mist foretells the approach of a commando 467
- things that foretell the approach of lions 431
- water knows things 531

Foulmouth
- and the two Lions 187
- decayed piece of the Muishond 187
- the Lion and the Muishond 187
- the thigh speaks 187

fox
- its hair used in the making of the !nabbe, a tail-hair brush 672
- making veldskoen from skin of 8
- skin 8

Fox
- who destroys a Koranna commando 761
- ||ua 761

Friedrich Hortnoop
- a physical description of 574
- details of his trial 574
- his age 574
- his genealogy 574
- his height 574
- his origins 574
- his personal history 574
- his place 574
- his prison record 574
- his prisoner number 574
- his return to Bushmanland 574
- left Mowbray with Jan Plat 574
- or Frederick Hottentot 574
- the names of his relations 574
- was related to Dia!kwain 574

frog
- a new maiden transformed into one 323
- and the angry Rain 323
- and the girl of the Early Race who killed the children of the Rain 748
- and the Rain 375
- and the water–spring 375
- and transformation of new maiden's people into frogs or toads 323
- its story 375
- the First Bushman girl carried away in whirlwind who became one 323
- the maiden's story 375
- the new maiden and her people transformed into 375
- the Rain in the form of an eland shot by one of the Early Race 746
- the Rain transforms people into 746
- the Rain transforms the girl and her people into 748

Frog
- !ga ka Kkumm or her story 928
- called !ga 928
- her husband is !kuommain |ka ||kau 928
- her husband runs away 928
- is ashamed 928
- is the Blue Crane's 'mate' 928
- looks pregnant 928
- marries !kuommain |ka ||kau 928
- vomits into a hole 928
- will not relieve herself and swells up 928

frogs
- and the young woman carried off by the Rain, in the shape of a bull 741
- and water-pits 741
- killing them causes drought 742
- people become them in the pond 737
- prohibition against killing 742
- the angry rain changes people into 737
- the rain protects 742
- the Rain transforms people into 741

fruit
- !kun name of 1093, 1094
- and the purification ritual 1094
- and what the man says while cleansing himself 1094
- is combined with the leaves of two trees 1093
- is fed to the in-laws and other people after cleansing 1093
- is prepared in cooking pots over a fire 1093
- is put in two vessels 1093
- is used in a cleansing preparation 1093
- is used to cleanse the body and is eaten afterwards 1093
- of the |kui drawn by !nanni 1108
- the man rubs himself with it 1094
- used for purification 1093
- |kui 1093, 1094

funeral
- of Dia!kwain's first wife 532
- the apparition seen after Dia!kwain's wife's 532

fungus
- called !gu !gu 668
- eaten only by old people 668
- grows above !haken 668
- protected by the rain 668
- young people do not eat it 668

future
- the pieces of wood called |xu used for divining 1050
- the set of divining pieces, or |xu 1042

gall
- and the creation of the Moon 624
- and what happens when people die 462
- eland's 624
- of the dead person 462
- of the dead, sits in the sky 462
- the appearance of 462
- |kaggen makes an eland 624
- |kaggen pierces it 624

gambro
- 'fights' and kills people 638
- and the digging out of 'Bushman rice' 662
- Cambro 584
- can kill people 642
- eaten during times of drought 742
- eaten when there are no springbok 662
- found in |han≠kass'o's country 597
- intoxicates 742
- is an irritant 642
- its ill-effects 642
- kills people 742
- methods of eating it safely 742
- or |kui 638, 642, 742
- protection against 742
- rain protects frogs 742
- smelling part of the porcupine to protect against its ill-effects 742
- the !au or shaped rib-bone 584
- the dangers of eating 642
- the ill-effects of 638
- utensils used for eating 584

game
- !ka !karro 'possesses' game 469
- !nana-an, or the custom of calling to wounded springbok 849
- 'cooling' the poisoned 520
- 'knows' people's deaths 424
- 'missing' aim at 707
- a description of 856
- actions of are omens of death 461
- and !nanna-sse 474, 707, 709
- and a ceremony performed by maidens so that their father's dogs should hunt well 507
- and a prayer asking the stars to allow the people to see 876
- and avoidance behaviour 474
- and Chaser-of-food 490
- and death 424, 427
- and Dia!kwain's dream of the death of his father 461
- and Dia!kwain's grandfather, !xugen-ddi 490
- and how |nu-!ke or magicians who have died still possess power 446
- and hunting observances 427, 475, 515
- and moths that foretell the killing of 470
- and new maidens 285, 482
- and places of the |xam 699
- and poisons gathered and prepared by !nanni's people 1053
- and premonitions of death 429
- and Ssa ka Kumm 475
- and stars behave in a similar way 520
- and the !ka !karro insect that predicts the finding of food 469
- and the actions of springbok and gemsbok 429
- and the beasts of prey 424
- and the death of Dia!kwain's first wife 429
- and the girl who made the Milky Way 285
- and the hunting-ground's doings 427
- and the kkoroken ritual 515
- and the new maiden who ate ostrich marrow without the knowledge of her people 482
- and the quagga pursued by Xwerri-kau 424
- and the spirit-people 446
- and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara 862
- and the treatment of bones 707
- and what happens if the Moon is looked at 468
- and where Ssho |oa is found 312
- and Xwerri-kau's story 424
- and ≠kamme-an's prayer to the spirit-people 446
- avoidance behaviour after shooting 520
- baboons and the ≠gebbi-ggu 541
- baboons dance the ≠gebbi-ggu 559
- Baboons play with !gaunu-tsaxau's eyeball 666
- bewitched by sorcerers 446
- called ssauken 856
- called ≠gebbi-ggu 541
- calling to and making it 'lie down' when wounded, and die 849
- ceremonies 478
- ceremonies in cutting up eland 478
- ceremonies performed for 475
- customs after shooting 520
- cutting up 475
- different moths and different types of 470
- digging pits for catching 699
- eating certain kinds of 474
- eating its flesh influences hunting 474
- eating poisoned 338
- effects of poison on 338
- eland is a 'magic thing' 478
- fat 478
- formerly possessed by spirit–people 446
- handling food after shooting 520
- how the maiden takes the dog's heart from the game 507
- how to act in front of 520
- hunting and the stars 876
- hunting springbok 707
- is a thing which knows our dying 427
- is a wild thing 424
- is influenced by the stars 520
- it remembers 490
- its actions 481
- its actions foretell death 429
- its dying is cured by the Moon's water 514
- its flesh and new maidens 482
- its knowledge of things that happen elsewhere 427
- its moths 481
- its things and new maidens 482
- knew the death of Dia!kwain's wife 429
- know what is happening at home 429
- leads people astray 514
- lean 478
- lean and fat 475
- making it die 514
- men nod and women clap in 862
- methods of hunting 424
- methods of killing 520
- moths that foretell the killing of 481
- moves about like stars do 520
- must be observed 427
- observances of the !kun 1076
- observes hunters 520
- obstinate 424
- once tame: why it grew wild 490
- or dance called !ku 862
- pits 699
- played by men and women 856
- played with the Phyllomorpha paradoxa or withered-leaf insect 652
- poisoning of weapons used for hunting 338
- power of sorcerers over 446
- prayer to a star 876
- prayers asking for 446
- predictions about finding 481
- prohibitions relating to 474
- resembles a dance 856
- respect for 709, 807
- respecting 475, 714
- respecting it 1006
- respecting the eland 1076
- ritual for foretelling the getting of 469
- rituals for hunting 285
- rituals for successful shooting 707
- rituals when hunting 520
- senses or knows things 427
- shooting 515
- shooting of and the Moon 468
- slaying of a white springbok will cause the others to disappear 807
- slow and fast 474
- sneezing to be avoided when game is shot 515
- sorcerers send fat or old things 446
- springbok possess magic arrows 709
- Ssho |oa and hunting 312
- stars and 520
- successful hunting of 468
- suspects game has been shot 520
- tactics with wounded 849
- teachings about 427
- tells people things 427
- that could be handled 490
- that takes hunters to their deaths 424
- the behaviour of 490
- the eating of and a ceremony for hunting dogs 507
- the effect of Ssho |oa on 312
- the making of poisons for shooting 1053
- the Moon allows them to live 468
- the Moon makes them lean 468
- the Moon not to be looked at, when game is shot 514
- the nature and habits of 424, 427, 514, 520
- the successful killing of 474
- the tame Quagga 490
- their wounds are cooled by the Moon 468
- things that follow 481
- things that know about 481
- understanding its actions 427
- watches and observes the people and their actions 520
- when it is obstinate 427
- when the hunting dog's heart becomes bad it leaves the game 507
- when to leave it alone 424
- where the She-Hyena is exposed 862
- why it fears people 490
- wounded game jumps up if the children sneeze 515
- wounded, is called and revived by the stars 520
- wounded, wants to walk 520
- ||kabbo's 'pitfalls' 699
- ||kabbo's treatment of bones 714
- –sorcerers 446

game pit
- and the elephants 991

gargling
- and a father's blood 501
- and avoidance behaviour 501
- can kill the father 501
- children must not play at 501
- customs relating to 501
- forbidden by |xam mothers 501
- prohibitions relating to 501
- the consequences of 501

gathering
- a description of 1053
- and a story of !nanni's people 1053
- poison 1053
- the skins worn for 1053
- what dress is worn for 1053

gaze
- the effect of a new maiden's 325

gemsbok
- !kun name of 1063
- a moth which foretells the killing of 470
- and an incantation to the Moon and stars 14
- and doings of a family of lions 245
- and doings of the |kaggen when the eland has been wounded 819
- and Har River 245
- and hyena and lion 46
- and Ichneumon's discourse 272
- and making of shoes 272
- and Mr Stow's picture of the dance of sorcerers 434
- and the death of Dia!kwain's wife 429
- and the Lioness and her adopted daughter, Tssi-!kuara |hin or Biting-Torn-Away 835
- and the Lions, the Tortoise, the little Hare and the old woman 123
- and the sorcerer's cap 434
- and the ||ken dance 434
- and tools used by the |xam 57
- and vultures 245
- and wind 272
- and |kaggen 392
- and ||ken dress 434
- animals eaten by the !kun 1063
- feel that the hare is |kaggen 819
- formerly ate honey 392
- herd 123
- hunted by the Lioness 835
- hunting of 272
- hyena carries of 46
- in chippings made by Dia!kwain's father 554
- in the time of the Early Race 123
- is a 'wind's thing' 234
- is hunted by lions 245
- is wild 234
- its meat is placed in the thong that trapped the Lioness 835
- its moth 470
- its nature and habits 234, 245
- its odour when dead 245
- killed by the adopted daughter's husband 835
- knew the death of Dia!kwain's wife 429
- listens 234
- lying in wait for 921
- rib used as cooking and eating utensil 57
- sorcerers imitate 434
- tactics in hunting 919, 921
- that became a lion 921
- that did not look like other gemsbok and had no horns 921
- the hunting of, and Stow's picture no. 2 527
- the nature and habits of 272
- the reasons for its colour 392
- their actions foretell death 429
- their arrows have barblets, or ||kuken 919
- their nature and habits 921
- transform themselves into a lion 921
- understands 234
- warned by the Tortoise 123
- watches 234
- were abundant in Dia!kwain's mother's time 123
- when one is shot hares appear 819
- young gemsbok's horns worn 434

Gemsbok
- and Anteater's laws 198
- belonging to the !khau lizard, carried off by a Lion 768
- Day's Heart and 45
- the 'earth's ditch's' 768

genealogy
- !nanni and Tamme's family trees 955
- !nanni's 972
- and Day's Heart 45
- and Jan Plat at Breakwater 486
- and names of |xam 146
- and personal history of prisoners 104
- and resurrection of the He-Ostrich 60
- and sneezing 215
- and ||kabbo's capture 27
- and ||kabbo's family history 26
- and ||kabbo's personal history 215
- Dia!kwain's 30, 117
- family trees 104
- Friedrich Hortnoop's personal history 574
- genealogical information concerning the family of |han≠kass'o 577
- Hendrik Beren's 570
- kkuirri-ttu's 670
- Lennerbay's 30
- names of Jacob Nein's relations 27
- names of relations 104
- names of |xam 10
- names of |xam groups 26
- names of ||kabbo's relations 26, 27
- names of ≠kasin's father, mother and their children 334
- notes about 26
- of !khannumup 1124
- of Beetje 110
- of Friedrich Hortnoop 574
- of Hendrik Ronebout 489
- of Jan Plat 486
- of Jan Plat and his brother Ruyter 539
- of Jan Plat, given at Mowbray 571
- of some people known by |han≠kass'o 871
- of the four |xam prisoners from Aliwal North 1118
- of the |xam contributors 10
- of |xam 60, 104, 110, 111, 215, 583
- of |xam contributors 146
- of |xam prisoners at the Breakwater 485, 486, 487
- of |xam prisoners at the Breakwater Convict Station 104, 489
- of ||gabbe-Tka 669
- of ≠enn at Breakwater 487
- of ≠gerri-sse 485
- of ≠kasin 60
- personal histories of |xam 583
- personal history of |han≠kass'o 617
- Ttono wo's 940
- |a!kunta's 30
- |a!kunta's and ||kabbo's 146
- |han≠kass'o's 577, 617, 670, 693, 939
- |xam 10, 45, 117, 146
- ||kabbo's 30, 155, 939, 940
- ≠gerri-sse at Breakwater and later at Mowbray 485
- ≠kasin's 111, 334

genet
- and dress worn by !nanni's father 998
- back-dress 998

geriatricide
- and the Lions, the Tortoise, the little Hare and the old woman 123
- and the old woman's song 87
- in the story of the old woman and hyena 195
- in the story of the old woman and the hyena 150
- the old woman left alone in her hut 123
- the old woman left in her hut 87
- the |xam treatment of the old 123, 150

gestures
- and avoidance of the name of the lion 421
- with the hand performed when indicating lions 421

ghost
- and |uma 1113
- concerning apparitions 532
- its blood 1113
- its bow 1113
- killed with assegai 1113
- name of 1113
- seen by ||kabbo 88
- the 'slayer' burnt its bow 1113
- the apparition seen after Dia!kwain's wife's funeral 532
- the lion-spectre 88
- the slaying or killing of 1113
- the ||gaun-a 1113

giraffe
- !kun name of 1063
- and lion 170
- animals eaten by the !kun 1063
- bitten by the lion 22
- falls on the lion 22
- kills the lion by falling on it 22
- the lion and 22

girl
- 'the Knorhaan who married his sister' 405
- about new maidens 126
- and eating game 285
- and game 285
- and hunting 285
- and new maidens 286
- and the Rain 126
- and the young man of the Early Race who was transfixed 126
- and the |kain |kain and |kaggen 614
- and young men 285
- becomes a Baboon 767
- becomes a frog 748
- cools hands and arrows 285
- creates Milky Way 285
- fears young men's game 285
- her actions 748
- her face changes to resemble a Baboon's 767
- is angry with her mother 285
- is secluded in a hut 285
- is transformed into a frog 748
- of Early Race 285
- of First Bushmen 285
- of the Early Race 748
- of the Early Race of people who is foolish and marries a Baboon 767
- of the First Bushmen 126
- puts saliva into springbok flesh 285
- the Baboon sings to 767
- the Kwa-kkwara lies with and marries a girl 405
- the new maiden 126, 637
- the Rain carried away 126
- the story of the Kwa-kkwara 405
- the treatment of the 'growing' girl 286
- throws !huin root into sky 285
- throws wood ash into sky 285
- throws |kui sse hair into the sky 637
- was a new maiden 285
- what happens when she becomes a new maiden 767
- what happens when she says the Baboon's name 767
- what she eats 285
- when she is little and not yet a new maiden 767
- who 'lies ill' 614
- who angers the Rain 748
- who ate the Water children 748
- who is stabbed in her breast 614
- who killed the Rain's children 748
- who lies with a knife 614
- who made dust 637
- who made the locusts 637
- who stabs the |kain |kain 614
- whose mother instructs her 614
- whose nose bleeds 614

girls
- !yoa-ka-ttu, the Blue Crane and 888
- 'darken Water's things' 737
- affect the success of hunting 411
- and buchu 411
- and lightning 411
- and the rain 411
- and the treatment of the rain 737
- and their food 411
- and young men 411
- and youths must avoid the rain's things 411
- appease the rain 411, 737
- are 'snored' 722
- are advised by grown-up people 411
- are protected by the Blue Crane 888
- as granddaughters 99
- cause illness 411
- dig for !haken 888
- do not call the porcupine's name 411
- do not collect food 821
- do not eat porcupines' tails 735
- fat, are cut up, cooked and eaten by |kuken-|u |unu 722
- find food 411
- kill the lice on the Blue Crane's head 99
- murdered by the Ratel 821
- of the Early Race 722, 821, 888
- old women teach them 411
- paint the water's things with tto 737
- prohibitions relating to 411
- protect the people with buchu 411
- protect their fathers from lightning 411
- rain changes people into frogs 737
- respect and fear the rain's things or animals 411
- sit in the shade of the !khi tree 888
- strew the water with ground–up buchu 737
- take care of their relations 411
- the actions of 411
- the Blue Crane and 99
- the Blue Crane covers them with her body 888
- the Ratel and the girls of the Early Race 821
- the Ratel kills 821
- their avoidance behaviour 411
- their bags are empty 821
- their calling of names 411
- their little sister spies on them 821
- their perspiration 411
- their scent angers the rain 411
- their work 411
- watch the Ratel dance 821
- went to a thing whose smell was not nice 821
- what they must say and do 411
- who are cursed by |kuken-|u |unu and become ill 722
- young 99

glance
- and the young man who was changed into stone, by the new maiden's 506
- or look of the new maiden transfixes people 506

gnu
- !kun name of 1063
- animals eaten by the !kun 1063

going astray
- and the signs left as directions for the people left behind 859
- and the signs made when leaving a place 859
- ||gwi !k'u 859

good-looking people
- and sorcerers who are like lions 720
- are 'seized' by sorcerers 720
- die even if doctored 720
- why they fall ill 720

good-looking person
- is 'handsome' 719
- is taken care of 719
- receives favourable treatment 719
- the illness of 719
- the treatment of 719

grass
- is arranged as a sign when the people leave a place 859
- is stuck in a bush to show the direction in which people have gone 859

Grass Bushman
- dance the |goo or ≠gebbi-gu 804

Grass Bushmen
- a description of 805
- a poison made by, called |kai ka !gaoken 330
- about their poison 223
- and the bad consequences of beating the kaross on the ground 497
- how they make poison 223
- how they take revenge on others 497
- resemble children 805
- seen by |han≠kass'o 805
- the 'children of shortness' 805
- the appearance of 805
- the names of places in their country 805
- their curses 497
- use magic things 497
- what they do when angry 497
- who have no sense 497
- |han≠kass'o's experiences in their country 805

grasses
- a description of 754
- a large grass is called 'hyena's brush' 754
- a small grass is called 'jackal's brush' 754
- different types of 754
- found in Bushmanland 754
- resembling feather brushes 754
- sizes of 754
- that resemble the brushes of the Early Race 754
- the appearance of 754
- the name of 754
- ||kabbeten-|kou 754

grasshopper
- different sizes eat different things 1030
- of !nanni's and Tamme's country 1030
- or !gau 1030
- or locust 1030
- that is large 1030
- that is little 1030
- what it eats 1030
- what it refrains from eating 1030

grave
- !kun methods of making 1114
- 'grounds' of the dead 1101
- a person's 'earth' 1102
- a snake found near one is not killed 1101
- a thorn-tree is placed on top of 1114
- and burial 1114
- and burial customs of the !kun 993
- and respect for the dead man 993
- and spirit-animals 1101
- and the burial of !nanni's little brother 999
- and the death of Dia!kwain's first wife 429
- and the use of bushes and stones to cover and protect 879
- burial and avenging a death 1114
- lizards found near them 1101
- making of 879, 993
- or !korro 999
- snakes and spirits of the dead 1102
- spirit animals live near graves 1102
- springbok and gemsbok knew the death of Dia!kwain's wife 429
- the actions of springbok at Dia!kwain's wife's 429
- the dead man's stick and bow are placed therein 993
- the digging of 1114
- the rain washes out a dead man's footsteps 879
- |xue and his parents and child 1045
- |xue's father makes him one 1045

graves
- !kun methods of making 984
- are covered with trees 984
- the people dig them out 984

great hole
- the path to 219
- where dead go 219

great tortoise
- a rain's thing 355
- and old woman's children 355
- and rain 355
- cooked by the children 355
- how an old woman asked a chameleon for rain 355
- its shell used for collecting rain-water 355
- the cooking and eating of 355

great water tortoise
- is the rain's animal 740
- leopard tortoise 740
- Testudo leopardis 740

greetings
- 'Oh Beast of Prey!' 936
- 'saluting 936
- and forms of salutation 936
- and responses to various 936
- and salutations 167
- and times of day 936
- at different times of day 167
- called kuanna-i 936
- how people salute each other 936
- said by men and woman 936
- said by the young and the old 936
- to sun 167
- used by those who are not comfortable 936

Grey Library
- and remarks concerning copies of Bushman pictures nos. I-XXIV 578
- Mr H.C. Schunke copies of rock paintings at 578

grief
- and the Hyena's revenge 843
- felt by the Hyena 843
- the |xam say 'in sorrow' 843
- what white men call 843
- |xam terms for 843

Griet
- family of 1133
- in Mowbray 1133
- other name 1133
- words given by 1159
- words given to Isabella Lloyd 1159

Griqua
- Griqua Stadt 570
- personal history of Hendrik Beren 570

Groot Rivier's Bushmen
- and the eating of baboons 224

groups
- 'Berg or Mountain Bushmen' 777
- and |han≠kass'o's people 777
- dialects spoken by different 775
- names of 775, 777
- of !kun 1027
- of !kun, that !nanni and Tamme belong to 1027
- of !kun, the names of their countries 1027
- of |xam 775, 777
- or !ku 1027
- the 'Berg' or 'Mountain Bushmen', from Schietfontein ground, or the !kaogen !ke 775
- the 'River Bed people', or Tka-sso !keten 775
- the Yabbi !ku 1027
- the |ke |ke ||en 775
- the ||no !ku 1027

grove
- accounting for the name of 726
- and |a!karaken killed by a lion 726
- called '|a!karaken's grove' 726
- lions wait in 726
- the people fear 726
- what |han≠kass'o's grandfather told him about 726

grown-up people
- and Ichneumon's rebuke 269
- the behaviour of 269

grown-up person
- 'does not sleep' 62
- 'knows the night' 62
- 'knows the things that walk at night' 62
- and Ichneumon's rebuke 241
- one who understands 241
- the behaviour of 241

gum
- !khou 'dung' 823
- !khou's 'eyes' 823
- and the making of clay pots 823
- from the Doornboom, or !khou tree 823
- names of different 823
- spooned with a springbok's horn spoon 823
- used to coat and seal clay pots 823
- uses for 823

gun
- and ≠kasin's adventure with a leopard 336
- baboons fear 551
- |uma exchanged for one by the Makoba 1112
- ||xabbiten ||xabbiten and the baboons 551
- –powder and shot used by 'Boers' to hunt springbok, which resemble the water of the sea 703
- ≠kasin hunts with 337
- ≠kasin hunts with a 336

guns
- carried by the Ovaherero made by |xue 1056
- when the Koranna acquired 762

habits
- and Day's Heart 45
- ætiology of animals and their 45

haematite
- an illustration of 771
- and Dia!kwain's father's drawings 473
- dots are painted with to resemble the hunting leopard 771
- in chipping no. 4 771
- is painted on the forehead 771
- methods of painting with 771
- or rooi klip 473
- red 473, 771
- tto or `rooiklip' 771

Hai-||umm
- about them 1029
- and the !kun 1029
- of !nanni and Tamme's country 1029
- people 1029
- the !kun buy sa from them 1029
- the languages they speak 1029
- their appearance 1029
- their country 1029
- trade with the !kun 1029

hail
- and avoiding eating the porcupine's neck 412
- and prohibitions regarding eating the porcupine's neck-lumps 453
- and the angry rain on the hunting–ground 453
- and the brother of the maiden taken up in a whirlwind who became the Porcupine 453
- and the things on the back of the porcupine's neck 412
- is the rain's legs 640
- the porcupine feels it is 453
- where it sits in the porcupine's flesh 453

hair
- children call the lion Hair 423
- children taught to use another name for the lion 423
- of the baboon and Ssho |oa used as a charm against illness 553
- types used in the making of the !nabbe, a tail-hair brush 672
- use of that from jackals and foxes 672

Hamerkop bird
- and death 531
- and falling stars 531
- and stars and death 531
- and the actions of the stars 531
- brings news of death 531
- foretells death 531
- is water's thing 531
- its cry 531
- its names 531
- knows things 531
- lives at the water 531
- Scopus umbretta 531
- sees the dead in the water 531
- takes stories into the water 531
- takes stories to people 531
- tells the truth 531
- what it means to hear it 531
- what people say about 531

handsome
- the name of a person who is 634
- what one calls people who are 634

handsome people
- 'good-looking' 720
- and sorcerers who are like lions 720
- are 'seized' by sorcerers 720
- die even if doctored 720
- why they fall ill 720

Hare
- !gabbaken-!gabbaken or Mason Wasp shoots his wife with an arrow intended for 676
- -husband 1057
- -wife beats |xue 1057
- accounting for his short tail 1057
- accounting for nature and habits of hares 365
- accounting for the appearance of the Hare 464
- actions of 66
- alters Moon's message 364, 365
- alters Moon's message to people 363
- and a prayer addressed to the Moon 464
- and Anteater's laws 198
- and creation of death 332, 365
- and death 66, 363, 364, 464
- and death of people 363, 364, 365
- and his dead son who smells bad 1057
- and his speech with |xue 1092
- and Moon 217, 363, 364, 365
- and Moon and Hare story 464
- and origin of death 217
- and resurrection 332, 363, 364, 365, 464
- and the bags of the dead Bushmen 1057
- and the creation of Bushmen 1092
- and the creation of death 1107
- and the Early Race 123
- and the Moon 468
- and the Moon and the origin of death 114
- and the Moon's speech 464
- and the old man who cut off his leg 566
- and the origin of death 66, 464, 468
- and the origin of the harelip 114
- and the travelling parties 566
- and thorns 123
- and travelling party of Lions 566
- appearance of 66, 114
- avoidance of eating hare-meat 464
- became a Hare 464
- becomes an orphan 66
- called foolish by the Moon 66
- contradicted the Moon 114
- contradicts the Moon 66, 464
- creates things 1092
- cries and fears death 1092
- cries for all those who die outright 1106
- cries for its dead mother 66
- cries for those who die outright 1107
- deceives the Lion 123
- did not 'assent' to the Moon 464
- did not speak nicely 1057
- dies altogether 1057
- does not like Bushmen 1092
- does not listen 66
- does not resemble the Moon 1057
- does not resemble us, who return 1057
- does not return 1057
- doings of 66
- fears |xue 1092
- gets Moon's message wrong 332
- gets the Moon's message wrong and tells people that they will 'thoroughly' die 114
- gives an 'evil' message 365
- gives the Bushmen food and thread 1092
- gives the Bushmen thread to snare antelope with 1092
- hare-meat contains a piece of human flesh 464
- hare-meat gives people heartburn 464
- hares are eaten by beasts of prey 464
- hares do not live in one country 1057
- his bags 1057, 1092
- his divining pieces 1057, 1092
- his fight with Moon 332, 364, 365
- his fight with the Moon 464
- his mother altogether dies 364
- his mother dies 217
- his mouth is burnt with a stone by Moon 365
- his mouth is struck by the angry Moon 464
- his mouth-scar 464
- his people die and smell badly 1106
- his people really die 1106
- his people smell when they die 1106
- his speech 364, 365, 1057
- his speech to people about death 464
- his speech to the Moon 1106
- his wife and |xue 1057
- in form of a jackal 1107
- insists he is a jackal 1107
- is 'grown-up' 66
- is beaten by |xue 1057
- is clever 66
- is condemned or sentenced by Moon 365
- is cursed by the Moon 464
- is not a mere hare 1092
- is punished by Moon 332, 365
- is |xue 1092
- its fight with Moon 363
- its mother is dead 363
- its speech about death 363
- language of 66
- lice inhabit his head 464
- little 114, 123
- Moon and Hare story 1106
- Moon and little Hare 66
- Moon and Sun and Hares 1107
- mother of is dead 66
- mouth of beaten by the Moon 66
- mouth of was burnt 114
- objects to the Moon 1106
- objects to the odour of the dead Bushmen 1057
- objects to |xue 1092
- puts Bushmen into bags and throws them far away 1092
- quarrels with his wife 1107
- says the Bushmen smell badly 1092
- shakes his head 464
- She- 1057
- She-Hare 1107
- sits on pan 123
- sleeps in a grass house 1092
- speaks Bushman 1092
- speaks with tongue 66
- speech of 66
- spoke 'incorrectly' 114
- struck by Moon on the mouth 217
- talked backwards 114
- tells people they 'altogether die' 365
- tells people they will 'altogether die' 363
- tells people they will die 364
- tells people wrong story 364
- tells wrong story 363
- the creation of death 363
- the death of his mother 464
- the doings of hares 1057
- the Hare's star 362
- the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman 1092
- the hare-lip 363
- the Lions, the Tortoise, the little Hare and the old woman 123, 123
- the little 66
- the little or young 217
- the Moon and the Hare and |xue 1057
- the Moon and the Hare: a version at first by ≠kasin and then by Dia!kwain 363
- the Moon and the Hare: a version by Dia!kwain 364
- the Moon and the Hare: a version by ≠kasin 365
- the Moon beats his mouth 364
- the Moon burns him 1057
- the Moon sends him to tell the people who are ill that they will live again like he does 365
- the Moon's curse and the nature and habits of hares 464
- the old man instructs 566
- the old man, the little Hare and the travelling Lions 566
- throws his bags far away 1057
- understands the old woman's speech 123
- was formerly a person 123, 464
- where hares live 464
- why the Bushmen kill hares 1092
- will die 464
- young 123
- |xue gives the Bushmen weapons to shoot hares with 1092
- |xue tells him to stop fearing death 1092

hare
- a part of its flesh found in its thigh is left alone 863
- and moon 1135
- and the digging out of 'Bushman rice' 662
- angry with the moon 1136
- different types of 863
- eaten when there are no springbok 662
- eating 173
- eating its meat 863
- has 'man's' flesh 863
- how |han≠kass'o's pet leveret was killed 698
- hunting 173
- hunting, preparation and eating of 163
- methods of carrying 173
- methods of hunting 688
- methods of killing 173
- moon and hare Kora fable 1135, 1136
- the actions and habits of 688
- the Hare was formerly a person of the Early Race 863
- the occasion upon which the story of the !khau was related to |han≠kass'o by his mother 698
- the parts of its flesh that are not eaten 863

harelip
- and the Moon burning of the Hare's mouth with a heated stone 114
- the Moon and the Hare and the origin of death 114
- the origin of 114

hares
- 'wish that we may kill them' 819
- and doings of the |kaggen when the eland has been wounded 819
- killing one makes the gemsbok live 819
- seem tame 819
- they appear when game has been shot 819
- |kaggen becomes one so men can shoot and kill him 819

harm's things
- 'snoring' out of, by the 'Bushman doctor', sorcerer or !gixa 782
- and illness's things 782
- and wood's things, or !koken-tiken 782
- lions, cats are 782

hartebeest
- 'eye riem' of 101
- 'eye thong'' of 101
- a charm made from its foot 416
- and doings of the |kaggen when the eland has been wounded 819
- and eland belong to |kaggen 414
- and protection from |kaggen 416
- and the actions of |kaggen 471
- and the treatment of |kaggen 471
- and |kaggen 392, 416
- colour of 101
- feigns death 101
- flesh of moves 101
- flesh of rejoins 101
- formerly ate honey 392
- has magic powers 414
- head of talks 101
- how its wound is cooled 471
- hunting of 414
- is a person 101
- is wild 236
- is |kaggen 101
- is |kaggen's thing 414, 415, 416, 471
- its actions when wounded 471
- its head resembles |kaggen's 415
- its nature and habits 236
- its other name 868
- its smell protects the child 416
- lion has the power of turning itself into 828
- lives again and recovers from its wounds 471
- must not hear things 471
- perceives man 236
- prohibitions regarding the eating of 416
- resembles |kaggen 415
- respecting 471
- stands fast 236
- the actions of people when they hear it is wounded 471
- the actions performed by the hunter of 414
- the coming of |kaggen foretells the shooting of one 471
- the hunting of 471
- the lion tricks people in its form 828
- the lion wants the people to try and head it 828
- the reasons for its colour 392
- what happens if it smells food or hears a child's cry 471
- winks 101
- women do not spring over its head 416
- |kaggen first made the eland and then the hartebeest 819
- |kaggen foretells the killing of 471
- |kaggen formerly became a wounded one 819
- |kaggen goes about with 414
- |kaggen loves the eland and the hartebeest 819
- |kaggen revives it 471
- |kaggen turned into 101
- |kaggen wants it to live 471
- |xam beliefs regarding 415

Hartebeest
- and Anteater's laws 198
- the old man, the little Hare and the travelling Lions 566
- travelling party of 566

hartebeest children
- |kaggen and !goe !kweitentu 38
- |kaggen's things 38

Hartebeest children
- and |kaggen and Great Tortoise 212
- |kaggen and !goe !kweitentu 239
- |kaggen and Cat 240
- |kaggen and the Cat 211
- |kaggen and the Ticks 612, 787
- |kaggen's things 210, 211, 212, 239, 240, 612, 787
- |kaggen, the Ichneumon and |kammanga go to Lion's house 210

Hartebeest's children
- and |kaggen takes away the Tick's sheep 293
- the son of |kaggen, the Baboons, and |kaggen 666
- |kaggen's things 293, 666, 667
- |ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen 667

hatch
- 'This cursing, it resembles things which hatch' 910

healer
- !gixa 781
- 'Bushman witchdoctor' or doctor 175
- 'snores' butterflies out 781
- 'snores' out 'harm's things' 782
- 'Toornan' 175
- about the sorceress !kwarra-an 398
- and 'sneezing' 781
- and 'snoring' 781
- and butterflies 781
- and Stow's picture no. 3 of sorcerer's ||ken dance 529
- called |xu-an 781, 781
- cures illness caused by butterflies 781
- curing by 781
- doctoring by 781
- extracts things 782
- healing by 781
- known by |han≠kass'o 782
- makes a noise like an owl and a lion 782
- observed by |han≠kass'o 782
- old woman 717
- or 'Bushman doctor' 781
- sorcerer 175, 529, 781
- teaches others in the ||ken dance 529
- the 'Bushman doctor', sorcerer or !gixa 782
- the Bushman doctress and sorceress Ttanno !khauken 433
- the doings of 782
- the great Bushman doctress and sorceress Ttanno !khauken 436
- the old sorceress !kwarra-an who healed or snored Dia!kwain's throat 400
- their 'snoring' does not lie down 782
- who 'snored' butterflies out of |han≠kass'o 781
- who 'snores' a person shot with a sorcerer's invisible arrow 717
- ||kabbo's grandmother was a !gixa 324

healers
- !giten 396, 397
- 'Bushman doctors' 396
- a speech made by the sorceress !kwarra-an 397
- about sorcerers 396
- about their vein 396
- and buchu 396
- and falling stars 491
- and internal bleeding 396
- and singing and dancing of people 396
- and snoring 396
- and sorceress !kwarra-an 397
- are taught by old people 396
- are taught by other sorcerers 396
- become beasts of prey 396
- become ill 396
- become lions 396
- caring for them 396
- death of 491
- grow hair 396
- heal people 396
- making or becoming 396
- or Bushman doctor 397
- other sorcerers' work is snored into their veins 396
- sneeze people 396
- snoring of a person possessed by a sorcerer 493
- sorcerers 397, 491
- stoop 397
- the payment of 397
- the ritual performed by the sorcerer 493
- the sorcerer's snoring work 493
- the tale of a wise person or sorceress 397
- the teaching of 396, 397
- the treatment of 396
- their backbone 396
- their good and bad work 397
- their great vein 396
- their great vein or vertebral artery 397
- their recovery 396
- their return home 396
- their snoring and sneezing work 397
- their veins 397
- their vertebral vein or artery 396
- their work 396
- their work is not easy 396
- their work is snored in their veins 396
- their work is snored into veins 397
- transformation of 396
- tremble 396
- who are rascals 397
- who kill people 397
- will kill people 396

healing
- 'Bushman witchdoctor' or doctor 175
- 'snoring' 722
- 'snoring' out of invisible arrows 720
- a description of a healing custom observed with young children 534
- a reed 'cuts' a cold 793
- a speech made by the sorceress !kwarra-an 397
- a spider bite with honey 9
- about sorcerers 396
- about the sorcerer or healer 175
- actions performed while 534
- an account of 175
- and 'sneezing' 782
- and 'snoring' 782
- and 'Tornan Manier', or 'sorcerer's craft' 397
- and curing 793
- and doctoring 1001
- and healer or sorcerer's ||ken dance 530
- and Ssho |oa 309
- and Ssho |oa, a medicinal plant 312
- and the explanation of the name Ssu-!kui-ten-tta 428
- and the Maiya plant 1086
- and the sorceress who snored Dia!kwain's injured throat 400
- and the trance dance 1001, 1002
- and the treatment of intoxication from eating too much of the Maiya 1086
- and what the man did to his wife when she was pregnant 389
- and where Ssho |oa is found 312
- and Xwerri-kau's story 424
- and ||kabbo's grandmother 324
- by 'Bushman doctor' or healer 288
- by a !gixa 324
- by binding the head with sinew thread 25
- by cutting 316
- by sewing up the head-wound 25
- by sneezing 288, 397
- by snoring 288, 397
- by sorcerers 397
- by Ssho |oa's man 316
- by the !gixa or 'Bushman doctor' 782
- by the old sorceress !kwarra-an 400
- ceremony 792
- curative powers of 312
- curing 1001
- cutting out poisoned flesh 102
- doctoring 9, 1002
- how women fear the new Ssho |oa 313
- lion bites 335
- medicinal plants used in 331
- medicines used by the |xam 9
- methods 9
- methods of 331
- more about |xue 1033
- of 'good–looking' people 720
- of 'harm's things' 782
- of a spider bite 9
- of a very young child 534
- of a young child's convulsions 534
- of children 793
- of colds 793
- of hunting wounds 250
- of illness caused by sorcerers who are like lions 720
- of illness caused by the dream 1002
- of illness's things 782
- of Jacob Nein's head-wounds 25
- of Jacob Nein, bitten by a leopard 25
- of sick children 792
- of the girls cursed by |kuken-|u |unu 722
- of the ignorant man who digs up Ssho |oa and becomes paralysed 316
- of the wound caused by a sorcerer's arrow 717
- of wounds of possession 493
- of Xurri ko's wounds 383
- of Xwerri-kau, attacked by a lion on the hunting-ground 424
- of ≠kasin's father 335
- or 'snoring' 717
- removing poison from a man's flesh 101
- rituals performed using Ssho |oa 316
- rubbing body with Ssho |oa, as salve 309
- sneezing 396
- snoring 396, 400
- Ssho |oa is rubbed into cuts and wounds 309
- Ssho |oa revives and restores 309
- Ssho |oa's curative powers 309, 312
- Ssho |oa, a medicinal plant 313
- Ssu-!kui-ten-tta or Snore-White-Lying's mother snored without a kaross 428
- the curative powers of Ssho |oa 313
- the man who cut his wife open tries to sew her up using a stick 389
- the sorcerers snoring work 493
- the sounds made while 534
- the tale of a wise person or sorceress 397
- the use of buchu 396
- using a reed necklace 793
- using a root called 'Leuuwhoud' and other preparations 344
- using the !nu !nurussi, Brachycerus, or African ground weevil 792
- using the baboon's Ssho |oa and hair charm 553
- when a man's flesh moves 102
- when people make gestures and kill the dream 1002
- with a beetle 534
- with medicinal plants 794
- with Ssho |oa 316, 335
- with the African ground weevil 534
- work of sorcerers or healers 396
- Xurri ko killed by a lion 383
- |xue performs a doctoring ceremony for his father who he 'killed' 1033

hearing
- the fine hearing of the porcupine and hunting it 410

heart
- 'falls' at death 461
- and a ceremony performed by maidens so that their father's dogs should hunt well 507
- and death 327, 983, 1102
- and Dia!kwain's dream of the death of his father 461
- and fear and courage 295
- and grief 983
- and Ralston's extract on mythology 327
- and sleeping in ashes 983
- and Ssho |oa 309
- and stars and game 520
- and what the man says while cleansing himself 1094
- children do not eat jackal's but they do eat a leopard's 744
- cooked in a pot 1006
- falls at death 309
- how the maiden takes the dog's heart from the game 507
- is large 1006
- is not eaten by the hunter 1006
- is respected and feared 1006
- is shared and not eaten by one person 1006
- it takes five days to eat it 1006
- men who run away fear greatly 295
- more about |xue 1075
- of Daybreak Star 182
- of stars 182
- of the elephant 1006
- of the hunting dog 507
- snakes and spirits of the dead 1102
- stars revive the game's 520
- Sun makes |xue's comfortable 1075
- Tamme's father's aching 983
- that aches 1102
- that is dry or plunged in water 295
- the dream's aches 1002
- the falling-down-heart 327
- the man speaks of his which must be calm not burn 1094
- things that arouse the game's 520
- when people want theirs to stop aching 1017
- when the hunting dog's heart becomes bad it leaves the game 507
- |xue and his father-in-law 1021
- |xue and his son 1056
- |xue as ostrich and other things 1025
- |xue's ached 1021
- |xue's aches 1025, 1056
- ≠nabbi is eaten when the people 'seek their hearts' 1096

hearts
- a prayer asking for the stars' so the people will not hunger 876
- an exchange of 876
- and a prayer to the stars 877
- and death 526
- and falling stars 491, 526, 531
- and shooting stars 526
- and stars and death 531
- and what the stars say 877
- at death it does not 'stand' 526
- fall at death 531
- fall like stars 526
- falling stars are the dead sorcerers' 493
- of children startled by earthquake 525
- of people believed to fall down at death 526
- of sorcerer's fall into waterpits 491
- of sorcerers fall into the waterpit 493
- resemble stars 526
- stars resemble falling 531
- stars take away those of the dead 526
- the peoples' are hungry 876, 877
- the protection of children's during an earthquake 525
- the sound of those belonging to sorcerers 491
- the sound the sorcerers' make when falling 493
- the stars' appear satisfied 876, 877

heaven's things
- and Day's Heart star 256
- and Sun, Moon and stars 256
- their creation 256

heavens
- an incantation to the Moon and stars 14
- and the Moon 37
- and the Sun 37
- at night 160
- creation of the Moon in 37
- Moon 157
- names of 157
- planets 157
- prayers to stars 160
- stars 157
- sun 157
- the sun, Moon and stars 160
- things of 37
- |kaggen and the Moon and 37

hen ostrich
- and the living again of male ostriches 913
- or ostrich wife 913
- really dies 913

Hendrick Beren
- an employee of Mr Willmott 570
- his genealogy 570
- his personal history 570
- the names of his relations 570

Hendrik Ronebout
- at the Breakwater Hospital 489
- brother of Jan Ronebout 489
- his father was killed by a 'Boer' or Dutch man 489
- his little name 489
- his patient convict number was 7910 489
- his personal history 489
- the names of his relations 489
- ||xou-||ku'a, or Daki 489

Herero
- !nanni saw |xue when he was with them 1012

Hereroland
- and the !kun 948

Hermann
- photographed !nauxa and !khannumup 1122

heron
- Heron's song 85
- song of the Blue Crane 85

Heron
- the Blue Crane and the girls 99

hip
- the Lions, the Tortoise, the little Hare and the old Woman 123
- the old woman's decayed 123

hippopotamus
- about seacows 20
- is a 'water's thing' 20

history
- 'Flat Bushmen' teach that of the First Bushmen 297
- a note on the First Bushmen 297
- see personal history 1014

hole
- 'tunnel' 738
- and death 219
- and the !khau who kills the Long-nosed Mice 906
- and things which are singing 906
- great 219
- its throat 738
- of the !khau 906
- porcupine lives in the anteater's 738
- the !khau's manner of coming out of 906
- the 'fashioning' of 738
- the Lizard, the Mice and |kaggen 906
- the making of 738
- the porcupine's 738

honey
- 'cutting' 351, 598
- and another version of what |kaggen did with honey 352
- and beating the !goin-!goin 598
- and calling bees 598
- and Ichneumon's discourse 272
- and seasons 272
- and the Moon not to be looked at, when game is shot 514
- and widow's story 253
- as a healing remedy 9
- different kinds of 351
- hole 253
- how the Ichneumon discovered what |kaggen did with the honey 351
- possessing 253
- the Moon's water resembles liquid– 514
- used in healing a spider bite 9
- |kaggen 'cuts' 624
- |kaggen feeds it to his eland 624
- |kaggen feeds it to his pet eland 351, 352
- |kaggen makes an eland 624
- |kaggen rubs his eland with 624

horn
- a male |ou's and a prayer to the moon 1043
- and !kun customs at death 1049
- and dress after death 1049
- long 622
- of a buck, the |ou, worn by the dead man 1049
- of animal used to catch blood in bloodletting 1071
- of the She-Rhinoceros 622
- sharp, real 622
- short 622
- |xue and his parents and child 1045
- |xue as !naxane and butterflies and with people who are afraid 1054
- |xue sounds an |ou's 1054
- |xue's broken 1045

horns
- and the young woman carried off by the Rain, in the shape of a bull 741
- are burnt for rain 816
- are burnt to divide rain-clouds 816
- burnt to appease the Rain 741
- of a young ram springbok 663
- springbok 663
- the smoke of disperses rain-clouds 816
- their outer layer or outer covering is burnt 816
- their scent 'does not smell nicely' 816

horse
- !kuppen and how women imitate their cantering by striking a kaross 909
- how women show admiration for 908
- it is proud and dances 908
- listens to the women 908
- women click and make it proud 908

Hottentot
- !khannumup or Petros Willems 1122
- !Ora 1123
- !Ora-speaker 946
- and personal history of prisoners 104
- Auma 946
- dialects of 946
- Jemima Bleek's interviews with the Lynx family in 1879 2024
- personal history of Hendrik Beren 570
- vocabulary given by Auma 946
- words and sentences 2024
- words and sentences given by !khannumup 1123

house
- 'making nice' the 814
- and !nanna-sse 707
- and further particulars regarding purification 1098
- and the seclusion of the new maiden 381
- and what is done with a 'new' maiden 381
- and |kua ka khumm's story 386
- bones placed opposite 707
- earthen, made by |xue 1055
- making of 386
- of illness 381
- of new maidens 126
- of the man who shoots springbok 707
- of the new maiden 381
- of the old woman who lived on a pan 386
- of the star 1083
- old woman left in her 87
- old woman's song 87
- or hut for the seclusion of new maidens 126
- or shelter 386
- the appearance of jackal clouds heralds the coming of rain 814
- the dream's 1002
- the Lion's 1009
- the man being cleansed must not enter other people's houses 1098
- the seacow's is in water 20
- the Sun's 37
- |kaggen and the Moon 37
- |kaggen, Ichneumon and |kwammana go to Lion's 210
- |xue and a woman 1055

house of branches
- how the look of the new maiden changed the Dassie and her people and their things into stars 319
- of the the Star-people 319
- the naming of the ≠nabbe ta !nu or Corona Australis 319

house of illness
- and the young woman carried off by the Rain, in the shape of a bull 741
- for new maidens 375
- the maiden's story; the frog's story 375
- the seclusion of the new maiden in 741

houses
- and modes of addressing rain 815
- and the rain and the wind 701
- are built by women 681
- building shelters for from the rain 815
- grass 1003
- huts made by the !kun 1003
- materials used to build 681
- the building of 701
- the bushes used to build 681
- the construction of 681
- the direction they face 701
- the positioning of 701
- wind, weather and springbok hunting 701

Hu'-we
- also U'we 1091
- becomes elephant 1091
- his transformations 1091
- is what the !kun call a person who works many things 1091
- is |xue and is a Bushman 1091
- the people call him |xue 1091
- what !nanni's grandfather Karu told him about 1091

humming
- by men in ssauken 856

hunger
- a prayer asking for the star's heart 877
- an occasion in which |han≠kass'o was hungry 750
- and a prayer asking the stars to allow the people to see the game 876
- and a prayer to the stars for food 876
- and an exchange of hearts 876
- and an exchange of hearts, stomachs and arms 877
- and death of people and place they go to after dying 249
- and genealogies of |xam 30
- and Rain 125
- and Rainmaking 125
- and the heart 876
- and what the stars say 877
- and ||kabbo's song about 'tobacco-hunger' after the loss of his tobacco pouch 604
- children are taught not to cry on account of 750
- death from 125
- death from starvation 249
- food eaten when there are no springbok 627
- for tobacco 604
- Jan Plat at Breakwater 486
- Jan Plat killed a sheep 'for hunger' 486
- meat is not put away for children 750
- mode of eating porcupine 627
- stars seem as if they 'possessed food' 876, 877
- starvation 125
- the star 'mayest also hunger' 877
- the star's heart will not 876, 877
- the stars appear to be satisfied 876, 877
- the stars are large and appear well fed 876, 877
- what is eaten in periods of 627
- ≠enn at Breakwater 487
- ≠enn ate from a stolen sheep with Hendrik 487

hunting
- !ka !karro 'possesses' game 469
- !nanna-sse 707
- !xen misses his aim 799
- !xen or Dirk and the steenbok 799
- 'beating the game' 815
- 'cooling' the poison and 514
- 'missing one's aim' 824
- 'missing the game' 708, 708
- 'when we shoot our death' 708
- -dog 86
- -ground 349
- -ground's doings 384
- -stories 424
- a belief about the bat and the porcupine 409
- a ceremony performed by maidens so that their father's dogs should hunt well 507
- a description of a hunt 701
- a description of springbok 824
- a prohibition against killing the white springbok 807
- aardwolf and jackal 161
- about fortune and blood during 442
- about returning home safely after 442
- about shooting when 634
- about the man one who 'walks in misfortune' while 442
- accident on 253
- accidents 249, 250, 483, 921
- actions when game has been shot 520
- actions when returning home after 520
- actions when shooting game 520
- adventure of |khui- |a with a family of baboons 542
- advice about leopards 483
- advice and warnings about 483
- alone 384
- an explanation of !hau-!hau 674
- and !nana-an: the custom of calling to the wounded springbok 849
- and !nanna-sse 474
- and 'Bushman's letters' 287
- and 'cooling' poison 520
- and 'missing the game' 707
- and 'possessing' arrows 706
- and a 'charmed place' 647
- and a beating of the flesh which tells the |xam things 287
- and a new maiden's saliva in springbok flesh 285
- and a prayer asking the stars to allow the people to see game 876
- and a story of rainmaking 275
- and accidental death of hunter 253
- and adults 634
- and animals who must 'running catch things' 256
- and Anteater's laws 200
- and arrows 309
- and arrows and bows 904
- and arrows that miss 701
- and avoidance behaviour 474, 475
- and bad omens 516
- and beasts of prey 442
- and breaking a bone of the game that the dog has killed 507
- and building shelters of bushes 701
- and ceremonies for killing and cutting up eland 475
- and ceremonies in cutting up eland 478
- and ceremonies performed by new maidens 507
- and children 634
- and cutting 309
- and cutting up prey 349
- and Day's Heart star's discourse 262
- and Day's Heart star's discourses 256
- and Day's Heart star's mother 256
- and death of an old man 349
- and death of hunters 250
- and death of people and place they go to after dying 249
- and deceitful game 424
- and destroying the sneeze or kkoroken 516
- and Dia!kwain's uncle |uherre's power over ostriches 442
- and digging 317
- and digging pits for catching game 699
- and dividing the herd 824
- and driving springbok 647
- and eating 520
- and eating lynx 677
- and education about the hunting-ground's doings 424
- and effect of gaze of new maiden 325
- and explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1 513
- and finding food 162
- and food eaten 1006
- and fortunes with finding food 468
- and further details of the men who hunted Lions with bones 759
- and game sorcerers 442
- and genealogies of |xam 30
- and good shooting 312
- and handling food 520
- and heading off springbok 701
- and how children treat the porcupine's bones 729
- and hunger 877
- and Ichneumon's discourse 272
- and imitating the sounds of the springbok 705
- and Jackal's song 86
- and killing a 'stretched-out thing' 442
- and killing an eland 475
- and killing baboons 545
- and killing hyena 546
- and kua kua ssi-kuiten, or things that people do not perceive 729
- and looking at the Moon 468, 514
- and losing the game 514
- and magic 674
- and making of weapons 262
- and making the game die 514
- and making water 520
- and making ||kuken from ostrich feathers 918
- and men's doings 800
- and methods of hunting gemsbok 527
- and missing one's aim 674
- and mixing arrow poisons used for shooting game 347
- and modes of addressing the rain 815
- and new maidens 285, 507
- and ostrich-feather brushes fastened to sticks 904
- and perceiving game 287
- and plants eaten by the !kun 1090
- and poison 272
- and prayers to Moon 162
- and preparing and eating of ostrich, 'chiansbok', springbok, khoran, hare and jackal 163
- and presentiments of things that are going to happen 287
- and rain 274
- and rain on the hunting-ground 746
- and respecting the game 471, 475, 713
- and scavengers 349
- and scratching a hole to lie in 647
- and seasons 272
- and shooting and poisoning game 468
- and shooting baboons 548
- and shooting eland 310
- and shooting game 515
- and shooting in the wind 647
- and shooting well or badly 249
- and sleeping in veld 384
- and sneezing 515
- and sneezing in the morning 515
- and spirit-people 442
- and Ssa ka Kumm 475, 475
- and Ssho |oa 309, 312
- and startling the herd of springbok 706
- and stopping up the entrances to the porcupine's hole 729
- and story of man who used a Lion as a dog 283
- and Stow's picture no. 2 527
- and tapping blood 287
- and the !ka !karro insect which foretells the getting of food 469
- and the !khau lizard and the rain–clouds 613
- and the 'arrow's bag' 904
- and the 'killed things' wind 878
- and the actions of the !khau and the rain 613
- and the actions of the game 424, 474
- and the bad influence of baboons 545
- and the cutting of the hunter's shoulders 716
- and the digging out of 'Bushman rice' 662
- and the doings and appearance of the Moon 468
- and the drought which caused |han≠kass'o's grandparents to starve 751
- and the Early Race 756, 759
- and the east wind 701
- and the food eaten by the |xam 101
- and the food found by women and girls 101
- and the game that takes hunters to their deaths 424
- and the gestures used on the hunting-ground 527
- and the girl who made the Milky Way 285
- and the habits of porcupines 734
- and the hunter who stood on his own poisoned arrow 921
- and the Jackal's speech 266
- and the kkoroken ritual 515
- and the little porcupine 730
- and the magic power of wild cats 864
- and the making of arrows 588
- and the man to leeward whose head is red 824
- and the man who went to sleep when out hunting alone 384
- and the marking of arrows to aid identification 850
- and the Moon 469
- and the nature and habits of game animals 514
- and the nature and habits of porcupines 419
- and the poisoning of arrowheads 588
- and the porcupine's hole 419
- and the preparation of feather brushes used for springbok 825
- and the shooting of eland and hartebeest 414
- and the son of the Wind 644
- and the springbok's 'wound's clot' 706
- and the springbok's story 427
- and the time of day 701
- and the treatment and placement of bones 729
- and the treatment of bones 707
- and the treatment of porcupine's bones 733
- and the treatment of the porcupine's quills 739
- and the use of barbed and poisoned arrows 918, 919
- and the use of buchu 716
- and the use of dust signals 800
- and the use of feather brushes called !xui-!xui 824
- and the use of the screen of bushes 904
- and the Wildebeest, the Mice, the Quaggas and |kaggen 904
- and the wind and the stars 878
- and the wind of the man who kills things 878
- and the |goro moth that foretells the killing of ostrich 481
- and time of day 272
- and times of day 647
- and treatment of prey 349
- and understanding the actions of game 427
- and waiting for springbok 701, 713
- and waiting for the porcupine 625
- and watching the sun 442
- and what parts of game should not be eaten by children 424
- and what people eat and wear 200
- and where Ssho |oa is found 312
- and widow's story 253
- and wind 272, 309
- and Xwerri-kau's story 424
- and |kaggen 310
- and |kaggen turned into a hartebeest 101
- and |kaggen's actions when a hartebeest has been shot 471
- and |uma's capture 1112
- and ||kabbo's treatment of bones 714
- and ≠kasin's adventures 349
- arrow-poisons used by the !kun 1053
- at different times of day 419
- at night 272, 625, 729
- avoidance behaviour after shooting game 520
- avoidance behaviour relating to 424, 514
- avoiding wounds when 713
- baboons 552
- baboons should not be spoken with 544
- bad consequences of looking at the Moon 514
- beasts of prey make men sleepy on -ground 384
- beautiful springbok 613
- behaviour of springbok in warm and cool weather 701
- bewitched springbk must be left alone 647
- breaking the porcupine's bones causes it to remain in its home 729
- by 'Flat Bushmen' 262
- by animals and Anteater's laws 198
- by men and women 647
- by the |xam 45
- by women 173
- by ||kabbo 163
- called |kua 317
- calling the springbok 706
- calling to different wounded game animals 849
- carrying meat after 730
- causing misfortune 1006
- causing misfortune at 674
- ceremonies for cutting up game 475
- ceremonies for successful 507
- ceremonies for the killing of eland 476
- ceremony 545
- charms for 309, 312
- charms used in 674
- children run 701
- children run down steenbok 751
- crows and secretary birds 609
- crows know where and show people where dead springboks lie 609
- customs 414
- customs relating to 474
- cutting and marking on bows 546
- death on 253
- defending dogs from baboons 552
- different kinds of arrows 250
- digging for porcupine 739
- disappointments of the Lion 62
- doings of the springbok and 706
- driving springbok 634
- driving springbok and the use of ostrich-feather brushes 815
- during a drought 751
- eating the porcupine's tail is avoided 734
- ensuring its success 514
- exhausting arrows 706
- exhaustion felt after 800
- fat and lean game 475
- follows rain 701
- for food animals 163
- for ostrich 269
- fortunes 545, 546
- game must be observed 427
- game pits 699
- game that takes people to their deaths 427
- girls affect its success 411
- girls and youths must avoid the rain's things 411
- girls cool hands and arrows 285
- girls fear young men's game 285
- ground 253
- habits of different animals and Day's Heart 45
- habits of the hyena 231, 233
- habits of the jackal 230, 232
- hare 173
- hartebeest and eland belong to |kaggen 414
- house of bushes used 222
- how Korannas and the |xam cut themselves 311
- how |kaggen protects his things 414
- hunters act differently after 520
- illness and 'when we shoot our death' 708
- in the heat of the sun 800
- in the moonlight 625
- in the story of the old man who makes rain 274
- jackal is a 'crosser of the spoor' 86
- Jacob Nein and the leopard 25
- killing 'Bushman rice' 317
- killing and eating game 474
- killing hare makes gemsbok live 819
- leopard 165
- lessons about 424
- Lion and Tortoise 62
- lying in wait behind screens of bushes 706
- making a 'good' wound when 647
- making a screen of bushes when 713
- making game 'lie down' when wounded, and die 849
- making good wounds when 706
- making the springbok 'lie down' and die 706
- marking and cutting the bow 545
- men who 'shooting feed themselves' 348
- men who hunted Lions with bones 756
- men's 317
- men's called !hunn 317
- methods 161, 163, 169, 173, 253, 272, 287, 419, 424, 546, 548, 625, 634, 701, 734
- methods and tactics 849
- methods at night 729
- methods for catching and killing the hunting leopard 513
- methods for catching lynx 677
- methods for killing different animals 173
- methods for ostrich 222
- methods for springbok 647
- methods of 309, 349, 751
- methods of catching porcupine 409
- methods of catching springbok 705
- methods of cutting up game 475
- methods of driving springbok 706
- methods of hunting hare 688
- methods of lions 245
- methods of lions which eat all things 244
- methods of the hunting leopard 513
- methods of, for porcupine 730
- misfortune at, and sneezing 516
- misfortune on hunting ground 250
- misfortune on the hunting-ground 716
- missing one's aim and a prayer to the stars 877
- Moon not to be looked at, when game is shot 514
- moths foretell the killling of different kinds of game 470
- observances 310, 384, 424, 474, 475, 478, 514, 515, 516, 520, 544, 545, 546, 548, 707, 708, 708, 713, 714, 716, 729, 733, 734, 739, 746, 807
- observances of the !kun 1006, 1076
- observances when an eland has been shot 819
- obstinate game 424
- of 'tiger' 165
- of and by animals 262
- of animals by people 200
- of animals by people and Day's Heart 45
- of baboons 542, 548
- of beasts of prey 483
- of different animals 272
- of eland 475, 478
- of game 469
- of game and the names of stars 933
- of gemsbok 849
- of hares and korhaan 662
- of hyena 169, 349
- of hyena by |xam youths 21
- of jackal 86
- of leopard 25
- of lion 349
- of magic game 414
- of magic things 475, 478
- of ostrich 287, 849
- of porcupine 419, 625, 729, 739
- of Quagga by the Mice 904
- of springbok 253, 287, 309, 349, 716, 800, 807, 849
- of springbok after rain 815
- of springbok and ostriches follows rain 274
- of springbok follows rain 613
- of the hartebeest 471
- of the Rain in the form of an eland by one of the Early Race 746
- of wild cats 864
- of |kaggen's things 414, 475, 478
- ostrich 60
- ostriches and barter 222
- people who dream of 824
- places of the |xam 699
- poisons gathered and prepared by !nanni's people to shoot game 1053
- porcupine 410
- porcupine at night and the !kwana thorn tree or bush 702
- prayers for successful 877
- predictions about 469, 471
- predictions of successful 481
- preventing baboons from trying to shoot people 548
- prohibitions regarding 384
- prohibitions relating to 474, 475, 514
- protecting dogs used for 552
- real ostrich 221
- real ostriches 221
- recognising arrows when shooting springbok 850
- removing the curse of the baboon from the bow 545
- removing the curse or bad influence of the hyena from the bow 546
- respecting the eland 1076
- respecting the game 708, 714, 807, 1006
- resurrection of the He-Ostrich and 60
- returning home after 800
- ritual for foretelling successful 469
- rituals 311, 414
- rituals and customs relating to 520
- rituals ensuring success at 312
- rituals for shooting properly 713
- rituals performed by girls 285
- rituals performed with the hunter 729
- rituals that ensure its success 309
- rituals to ensure its success 707
- roles played by the men and women 706
- running leeward 701
- season and rain 275
- seeking springbok 168
- shooting hare 173
- shooting springbok 708
- shooting windward 701
- sitting and waiting for porcupine 419
- sneezing to be avoided when game is shot 515
- springbok 168, 250, 474, 634, 644, 701, 703
- springbok after it rains 657
- springbok after the rain 634
- springbok and rain 275
- springbok and the use of feathered and poisoned arrows 661
- springbok and windmaking 647
- springbok ewes and lamb's cries 705
- springbok, and ||kabbo's dream of lions which talked 268
- springbok, which resemble the water of the sea 703
- Ssho |oa band is worn when hunting 312
- stars in Orion's belt named according to the hunting of springbok 933
- story of Oud Dorntje catches a leopard 165
- successful 647, 824
- successful and unsuccessful 442, 468, 701
- successful, and talking to baboons 544
- tactics 713, 825
- tactics for chasing Quagga 904
- tactics for gemsbok 921
- tactics for springbok 800, 815, 824
- teachings about 384, 414, 442, 474, 483, 507, 514
- the 'Boer's' gunpowder and gunshot are exhausted 703
- the ammunition and weapons used 703
- the arrows used for shooting springbok 588
- the burning of the hunter's blood in buchu 716
- the consequences of eating prohibited food 708
- the different arrows used for springbok, gemsbok and ostrich 919
- the doings of |kaggen when an eland, game has been wounded 819
- the driving of the herd 824
- the eating of game 708
- the effect of Ssho |oa on game 312
- the fatal hunting adventure of !kwai-!kwa and his companion 483
- the fine hearing of the porcupine 410
- the game and the stars 520
- the game hunter, Karo 1112
- the game observes the hunter's actions 520
- the hunter does not eat the heart of the elephant he killed 1006
- the hunter's body and game's 287
- the implements used 272
- the killing of a white springbok will cause the others to disappear 807
- the man who becomes faint while returning home after 800
- the man wounded while 250
- the names of 317
- the names of wounded and unwounded springbok 800
- the preparation of the feather brushes used in 824
- the pursuing of game 427
- the rituals performed for successful, after the death of a companion 716
- the role played by men, women and children 701
- the shaving of the hunter's head 716
- the sucking of the hunter's blood 716
- the treatment of the bow 545, 546
- the use of children who shoot and see well 613
- the use of nets in 730
- the weapons used 349
- the wearing of veldskoen 349
- the wife who watches for her husband who does not return from 800
- the |xam and the hyena 21
- the ||kerri: a bird which eats locusts; and locust-hunting 657
- things that run fast and that do not run fast 474
- Tsatsi's treatment of bones 713
- unsuccessful 824
- unsuccessful and successful 729
- unsuccessful, after the death of a companion 716
- using a screen of bushes when 647
- using arrows 634
- using look-outs 287
- using screens of bushes 272
- waiting and listening for the porcupine to return 729
- waiting and watching for porcupine 409
- waiting for porcupine 734
- warnings about 384
- ways of shooting 701
- weapons and implements used in 222
- weapons used 272
- weapons used for 173
- what food is given to the man who shot springbok 707
- what Ichneumon tells |kaggen about ostriches 221
- what the stars say 877
- what |kaggen does when an eland has been shot 310
- when the Moon allows the game to live 468
- wild cats kill the hunter in the shape of a lion 864
- wind, weather and springbok hunting 701
- with a wound 713
- with dog 161, 163
- with dogs 349, 507
- with dogs and a gun 337
- with dogs at night 876
- women 'work nicely' on the hunter 729
- women drive 701
- women must not eat the springbok's shoulder blades 708
- women's 101, 317, 662
- women's is digging 317
- women's things and 'girl's arrows' 548
- Xaa-ttin's accident while after springbok 502
- |han≠kass'o's experiences of during the drought 751
- |kaggen and !kaken-!kaka-!k'aui 221
- |kaggen and the hunting of eland 476
- |khoro is feared when the game is dead 1090
- |khoro plant is eaten by a person who has shot game 1090
- ||kabbo's 'pitfalls' 699
- ≠kasin shoots a hyena 337

hunting ground
- and the Water's story 378
- how maidens adorn young men with ||ka or 'rooi klip' 377
- maidens adorn young men as protection from lightning on 378
- protection of young men from rain and lightning on 377

hunting leopard
- 'is not a thing which chases things' 513
- 'seems to be ill' 513
- and explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1 513
- does not run fast 513
- fears its back 513
- how it hunts 513
- hunts like a person 513
- in chipping no. 4 771
- its nature and habits 513
- lies in wait 513
- methods of hunting and killing 513
- people kill it with stones 513
- stalks like an old man 513
- the painting of tto dots on the forehead to resemble 771

hunting observances
- and Tsatsi's treatment of bones 713
- and wounding the first finger of the right hand 713
- respecting the game 713

hunting-ground
- about fortune and blood during hunting 442
- about returning home safely after hunting 442
- and approaching people's 'chests' 620
- and beasts of prey 442
- and bewitchment 620
- and Dia!kwain's uncle |uherre's power over ostriches 442
- and food avoidances 424
- and hunting observances 668
- and killing a 'stretched-out thing' 442
- and new maidens 452
- and prohibitions 424
- and standing at dawn 499
- and the !ho and Ko-boken 499
- and the !ho or whirlwind 499
- and the actions of rain 452
- and the actions of the angry 'killing' Rain 453
- and the angry Rain– its stones or hail and thunder and lightning 453
- and the approach of strangers 620
- and the story of the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- and things that take hunters to their deaths 424
- and watching the sun 442
- and what parts of game should not be eaten by children 424
- and Xwerri-kau's story 424
- bewitchment on 668
- education of children about 424
- information about 424
- its doings 424
- magic on 620
- protection by new maiden's from the rain on 452
- quickly returning from 668
- rain on 668
- teachings about 442
- teachings about its doings 499
- the actions of game and beasts of prey 424
- the actions of lions 424
- the youth transformed into the Porcupine on 453
- things that make people feel sleepy on 620
- various foods and the protection of the rain for a fungus 668
- |kaggen fights !goe !kweitentu on 38
- |kaggen's fights on 38

hunting–ground
- and magic, or bewitchment 618
- and the story of !gwa !nuntu and the Elephants 618
- sleeping on warned against 618
- the 'chest' of strangers 618
- the approach of strangers make one sleepy 618

husband
- 'husbands do mad things' 885
- and !kun customs at death 1048
- and !kun marriage customs 1078
- death of 1078
- his own people 885
- his widow married by his next brother 1078
- husbands who 'marry into our people as if they understood' 885
- is a man of the Early Race 885
- of ≠nerru 885
- the actions of wives after death of a 1048
- treatment of the wife's mother 1080
- tries to heal his wife with a sharpened stick 389
- was not instructed properly 389
- who cuts open his pregnant wife 389
- who did not understand his wife, ≠nerru, and injures her 885
- who does not act nicely 885
- who is foolish 389
- who killed his wife by means of a poisoned arrow in her bed 1080

husbands
- !kagen finds and releases them 380
- 'angry man' 253
- and !kagen 380
- and bee's water 380
- and Crow's story 380
- and Dassie's water 380
- and widow's story 253
- are buried under stones 380
- are cursed by Dassie 380
- curse Dassie 380
- dead 120
- death of 253
- family of 253
- good or bad 253
- killed by Boers 120
- missing 380
- murdered 120
- the sending of the Crows to look for 120
- who are 'different' 253
- wives are worried about 120
- |xam 120

hut
- a strong shelter must be made before the Wind's name is called 644
- about new maidens 360
- and Ssa ka Kumm 475
- and the effect of a new maiden's gaze 325
- and the girl who made the Milky Way 285
- and the new maiden who ate ostrich marrow without the knowledge of her people 482
- and the son of the Wind 644
- and the story of |kuken-|u |unu 722
- and the treatment of bones 733
- and the young man who was changed into stone 506
- bones put away in the sticks of 713
- for seclusion of girls 285
- for the seclusion of the new maiden 482
- further changes of |xue 1031
- in which the new maiden is secluded 506
- made for man who has shot an eland 475
- new maiden's secluded in 325
- of new maiden 286
- of new maidens 285
- of the !kun 1072
- of the dead 722
- of the girl, of the Early Race of people, who married a Baboon 767
- old woman left in her 87
- old woman's song 87
- porcupine bones placedopposite its entrance 733
- see house 126
- that the new maiden is secluded in 286
- the dead body lies 'in the old hut' 722
- the girl lies down in to become a new maiden 767
- the Lions, the Tortoise, the little Hare and the old woman 123
- the old woman left alone in 123
- the old woman's 123
- the seclusion of the new maiden in 360
- the treatment of the 'growing' girl 286
- Tsatsi's treatment of bones 713
- where the old look after the children 1072
- |xue's grass 1031

huts
- grass 1003
- houses 1003
- made by the !kun 1003
- the making of 1003
- the use and placement of poles 1003

hyena
- !kun name for 1028
- 'wolf' 169
- and lion 46
- and lynx 231
- and old woman 150
- and old woman's song 151
- and ostrich eggs 46
- and the Day's Heart star's discourse 266
- and the doings of the jackals 263
- and the Jackal's speech 266
- and the old woman 195
- and time of day 229
- and wild dog 231
- and ≠kasin 337
- and ≠kasin's hunting adventures 349
- bites the lion's thigh 46
- children of 46, 233
- cooking of 21, 169
- does not hunt 231
- doings of 46, 266
- eating habits of 46
- eating of 169, 996
- eats dead 229
- fears men 229
- feeds its children ostrich meat 233
- habits of 169
- hunting of 169
- Hyena takes Jackal's springbok 263
- Hyena takes Jackals' springbok 266
- is made into soup 21
- its actions 546
- its curse on the killing bow 546
- its curse or bad influence 546
- its diet 229, 231, 233
- its hole 229, 231, 233
- its nature and habits 229, 231, 233
- its young 229, 231
- jackals fear 263
- killed by the old woman 195
- killing of 21
- preparation of 21, 169
- removing its 'actions' from a bow 546
- sleeps covered with earth 169
- steals food 231
- the cuts made on the bow when one has been killed 546
- the gemsbok and 46
- the ground of 21
- the house of 21
- the hunting of 21, 546
- young boys hunt 21
- |xam eat 21
- ≠kasin shoots 337

Hyena
- accounting for appearance of hyenas 45
- accounting for appearance of the hyena's back parts 401
- accounting for behaviour of hyenas 45
- accounting for the hyena's appearance 862
- actions of hyenas 45
- and Anteater's laws 189, 198
- and Day's Heart 45
- and his people 401
- and Lion 171, 194
- and pot of soup 194
- and She-Lynx 45
- and the Lion's story 1009
- and the old woman's song 87
- and the Ostrich 60
- and the Ostrich eggs 60
- and the Quagga who was poisoned by her husband 894
- and the riem 401
- and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara 862
- angers the Day's Heart star 862
- baying calls of hyenas 45
- burns foot in fire 45
- burns her backside in the fire 862
- diet of hyenas 45
- does not want to go into the Lion's house 1009
- doings of hyenas 45
- fears the Lion 1009
- fears the She-Rhinoceros 622
- food eaten by hyenas 45
- foot hair of 45
- grieves and cries 843
- habits of 189
- has two names, ||hou and ||gaxa 1009
- her backside is pierced by the Day's Heart star 862
- his back parts are burnt 401
- his prey, quagga 401
- his revenge 843
- his travelling party 401
- how the Jackal deceived the Hyena 401
- hunting habits of hyenas 45
- Hyena mother 87
- is a person of the Early Race 843
- is a suitor 622
- is burnt in fire 401
- is exposed in the !ku dance 862
- is jealous of the She-Lynx 862
- is one of the young He-Dog's people 894
- is ugly 45
- its revenge on Day's Heart child's mother 256
- its speech 1009
- its story 189
- kills the Lion using a cooking pot 843
- Lion and 1009
- marries elder sister 198
- marries own kind 45
- marry own kind 189
- milk of 45
- mother of 60
- must marry a hyena 45
- poisons !ko'-g !nuin-tara with blackened perspiration from the her armpits 862
- poisons Day's Heart child's mother 256
- poisons She-Lynx with her milk 45
- relations of 45
- resurrection of the He-Ostrich and 60
- revenge of 171
- saliva of 45
- She-Hyena 87
- sleeps on a skin at the Lion's house 1009
- takes old woman 87
- tastes the Quagga's liver 894
- the back of the hyena 45
- the Lion and its child feed it caterpillars and 'fire things' 1009
- the Lion kills his wife Auru, the |go |go'ken or Tortoise 843
- the Lion pierces its hindleg 1009
- the little Quagga breaks her pot 894
- the people 'made a !ku' dance on her account 862
- the revenge of 194
- the She-Hyena 862
- the She-Rhinoceros and her elder daughter's suitors 622
- the Silver Fox throws a stick at 622
- tricks Lion 171
- tricks the Day's Heart star into marrying her 862
- tricks the Lion 843
- wants the Day's Heart child 862
- wears !ko'-g !nuin-tara's ornaments and things 862
- what it says 1009

Hyenas
- !gwa !nuntu and the Elephants 618
- menace !gwa !nuntu with sticks 618

hyenas
- places where they have urinated are avoided 896

Ichneumon
- advises 788
- advises |kaggen 38, 221, 241, 269, 293, 610, 612, 659
- advises |kaggen about the Ticks 787
- advises |kaggen how to fight !goe !kweitentu 239
- advises |kaggen on defeating the Cat 240
- advises |kaggen on fighting the Cat 211
- advises |kwammana 207
- and another version of what |kaggen did with honey 352
- and creation of eland 207
- and the !kwai !kwai, |kaggen and the children 615
- and Xara's eland 348
- and |kaggen 210
- and |kaggen and !goe !kweitentu 38, 239
- and |kaggen and !kaken-!kaka-!k'aui 221
- and |kaggen and Great Tortoise 212
- and |kaggen and his pet eland 351
- and |kaggen and |kwammana go to Lion's house 210
- and |kaggen and |kwammana's rescue 610
- and |kaggen and ||khwai-hemm 788
- counsels |kaggen 212
- creation of the Moon and 37
- cuts a hole in |kaggen's sack 352
- discourse of 221
- hides in a sack 351
- his address 272
- his discourse to |kaggen 269, 272, 272
- his doings 348
- his father is |kwammana 610
- his fight with Xara 348
- his grandfather is |kaggen 610
- his mother shall become a Porcupine 293
- his speech about lions which eat all things 244
- his speech when |kaggen had taken away the Meerkats' possessions 94
- how he discovered what |kaggen did with the honey 351
- is cunning 351
- is |kaggen's grandson 612
- kills eland 352
- laughs at |kaggen 38, 88
- leads his brothers to eland 352
- lectures and scolds |kaggen 612
- makes |kaggen understand 239, 240
- on nature and habits of all things 272
- on nature and habits of people, plants, animals, heavens and seasons 272
- on nature and habits of real ostriches 269
- or |ni 239, 240
- pities |kaggen 612
- rebukes |kaggen 240, 241, 269, 293
- scolds 788
- scolds |kaggen 610
- sleeps badly on account of |kaggen 293
- speech about lions 245
- speech of 94
- spies on |kaggen 351, 352
- tells |kaggen about hunting real ostriches 221
- tells |kaggen to be silent 788
- the language spoken by 94
- the monster ||khwai-hemm's speech and 88
- the nature and habits of 293
- the son of |kaggen, the Baboons, and |kaggen 666
- the Xara and 348
- understands 293
- will marry his own kind 293
- |kaggen and Koro-tuiten 659
- |kaggen and the Moon and 37
- |kaggen and the Ticks 612, 787
- |kaggen and |kwammana visit the Dassie's house 610
- |kaggen makes an eland 624
- |kaggen takes away the Tick's sheep 293
- |ni 212, 221, 241

ignorant man
- and snakes 316
- digs up Ssho |oa and the consequences of his actions 316
- does not know Ssho |oa's language; does not understand 316
- his wife and Ssho |oa 316
- how people heal him with Ssho |o a 316
- is paralysed 316
- must work Ssho |oa on his wife 316
- or novice 316
- Ssho |oa does not know him 316
- the cutting of 316
- the ill effects of Ssho |oa on 316
- was not a Ssho |oa 's man 316

illness
- !guonni is a 'thing' which 'pinches the chest' 519
- 'harm's things' cause 782
- 'snored' by healer 396
- 'snored' by healers or sorcerers 781
- 'snoring' 717
- 'when we shoot our death' 708
- a baboon does not feel pain 553
- a baboon does not get ill 553
- a child's cold 793
- a child's convulsions 534
- a dust that kills 497
- a reed 'cuts' a cold 793
- a reed necklace used to cure a little child's 793
- a root used for curing 344
- a time of and bloodletting 1071
- about new maidens and 126
- about sorcerers 396
- an eruptive 895
- and !gaunu 519
- and !nanna-sse 709
- and a cloud of things resembling flies 497
- and a speech made by the sorceress !kwarra-an 397
- and becoming 'cool' or 'warm' 773
- and collecting locusts 638
- and curses 497
- and cursing people 497
- and falling stars 491
- and healing and the trance dance 1002
- and how tto is obtained 712
- and intoxication 1007
- and life after death 854
- and looking at sorcerers 712
- and sneezing 288, 397
- and snoring 288, 397
- and spells 497
- and swallows 521
- and the !ho and Ko-boken 499
- and the 'Bushman doctor', sorcerer or !gixa 782
- and the baboon's hair and Ssho |oa used as charm against 553
- and the bad consequences of beating the kaross on the ground 497
- and the Bushman doctress and sorceress Ttanno !khauken 433
- and the consequences of a woman's smelling Ssho |oa scent 315
- and the consequences of eating respected animals 975
- and the consequences of standing at dawn 499, 500
- and the death of Bushmen 1057
- and the Hare's bag 1057
- and the Hare's divining pieces 1057
- and the ill effects of the !ho: a whirlwind 500
- and the killing of locust birds 916
- and the Maiya plant 1086
- and the making of medicines 331
- and the Makoba 1007
- and the medicinal plants found at ≠kasin's place 331
- and the medicines taken by the |xam 331
- and the mirage, or !ho 498
- and the mist or haze called !kh'o which is illness 498
- and the story of the Leopard Tortoise who feigns illness and deceives the men of the Early Race 388
- and the treatment of intoxication from eating too much of the Maiya 1086
- and the Water's story 378
- and the young woman carried off by the Rain, in the shape of a bull 741
- and throwing stones at swallows 522
- and treatment of a 'good-looking' person 719
- and what Xaa-ttin used to sing 460
- bringing of 497
- butterflies and !giten 781
- called !hamman-xu 895
- caused by 'missing the game' 708
- caused by bewitchment 519
- caused by butterflies 781
- caused by disrespecting magic things 521
- caused by disrespecting the rain's things 411
- caused by dreams 1001
- caused by eating gambro 638
- caused by eating the springbok's shoulder blades 708
- caused by locust–thirst 638
- caused by saying the names of the dead at night 854
- caused by sorcerers 521
- caused by sorcerers at the tto or 'rooi klip' mine 712
- caused by sorcerers who are like lions 720
- caused by sorcerers who shoot with an invisible arrow 717
- caused by the !ho 499
- caused by the dead sorcerer !nuin-|kui-ten 460
- caused by the dream 1002
- caused by the ill-treatment of swallows and locust birds 916
- caused by the scent of the Ssho |oa 315
- caused by the springbok 'entering' the skin 709
- caused when sorcerers seize 'handsome' people 720
- dropsy 126
- due to sorcery 497
- eating a wild cat causes pain in the head 975
- from lightning 378
- girls and youths must avoid the rain's things 411
- Great Tortoise feigns to deceive Ratel 403
- headache 638
- healing 397
- healing a young child with a weevil 534
- healing in little children 534
- healing or doctoring 717
- house of 375, 741
- its things 782
- making 497
- of !kun caused by taking 'dacca' 1007
- of !nanni's people 1007
- of children during an earthquake 525
- of Dia!kwain's brother Ko-bbo after eating Ttanno !khauken's springbok 433
- of Kki-a ||ken who fainted and got ill after throwing stones at a swallow 521
- of Kki-a-||ken who threw stones at swallows as a child 522
- of the throat 895
- of the throwing arm 916
- people become water 126
- places where jackal and hyena have passed water are avoided for fear of skin disease 896
- scratches and affects the throat 895
- sending 497
- small illnesses 1057
- sorcerers of 491
- sorcerers who have died of sickness 491
- teeth get diseased 411
- the 'sneezing' of 782
- the 'snoring' of 782
- the angry rain makes young men sick with sores 378
- the consequences of 'playing' with the springbok's skin and bones 709
- the consequences of missing the game 708
- the creation of 1057
- the curing of and the trance dance 1001
- the healer's snoring and sneezing work 397
- the healing of 782, 793
- the healing of a child using the !nu !nurussi, Brachycerus, or African ground weevil 792
- the injuries |gui-an sustained from being beaten 773
- the maiden's story 375
- the man of 497
- the Moon and the Hare and |xue 1057
- the place where it is kept 497
- the seclusion of new maidens 375
- the springboks' magic and invisible arrows 709
- the tale of a wise person or sorceress 397
- unloosing 497
- when !guonni 'bewitches us to death', stabs people 519
- when the dead 'come as a fighting party' 854
- when the dead come to kill a person 854
- when the dead harm the living 854
- why maidens adorn young men 378

implement
- and |kaggen and Koro-tuiten 659
- see utensil 584
- the use of the digging stick 659
- used for digging for 'Bushman rice' 659

implements
- a knife 851
- cutting with stone knives 869
- for cutting meat 869
- for drinking ostrich eggs 269
- mat sieves and heated stones 299
- the !kui, or digging-stick stone 851
- the straightened reed 851
- use of reed and stone 855
- used for preparing and eating different foods 668
- used for rendering and dividing fat 679
- used for skinning and cutting meat 855
- used in the making of arrows 851
- used in the preparation of 'Bushman rice' 299
- various foods and the protection of the rain for a fungus 668

in-laws
- a man respects his wife's mother 1079
- how the son-in-law must behave 1079
- modes of addressing 1079
- observances relating to 1079
- respect for 1079
- the mother-in-law's name is not spoken 1079
- use of the terms of address, ≠khumm and |ui sau 1079

incantation
- and a ceremony performed by maidens so that their father's dogs should hunt well 507
- asking a star for food 876
- asking the stars for their hearts so the people will not go hungry 876
- asking the stars to allow the people to see the game 876
- asking the stars to take the people's hearts 876
- of the new maiden 507
- or prayer to a star 876
- or verse to 'Kleine Jackals' 142
- poetry 14
- prayer 14
- song 14
- to new Ssho |oa 314
- to the hunting dog 507
- to the Moon and stars 14
- to the stars when hungry 876
- verse 14
- what man says to the Ssho |oa so it may know him 314

incantations
- and prayers regarding the successful hunting of springbok 877
- and what the stars say 877
- asking the stars for their hearts 877
- prayers 877
- to the stars 877
- to the stars when hungry 877

Indian Hemp
- is forbidden during purification 1098

infantry
- and a review of the parade 883
- the people who were red 883

injury
- Jacob Nein bitten by a leopard 25

insect
- !ka !karro 469
- 'knows things' 469
- a !kun song about 967
- a healing custom observed with young children using the African ground weevil or Brachycerus 534
- about locusts 638
- and hunting game 469
- and making of poison 346
- and mixing arrow poison 347
- and the game 469
- called |ßkururu, Kritje, or |xabbe 346, 347
- found in !kun country 967
- has the Moon's name 469
- how the !gabbaken-!gabbaken punished his wife for making personal remarks 676
- is questioned by women 469
- its actions and the doings of game 469
- its actions foretell the getting of food 469
- its Dutch name 346
- its Koranna name 346
- its proper name is Grillus Capensis 346, 347
- its |xam name 346
- locusts 631
- locusts or ||kabba-|kha 649
- mantis 818
- predicts the finding of food 469
- resembles the Moon 469
- the !num-!num moth or Aloa amasis 480
- the !uhaiten-!uhaita ||go a ken, withered-leaf insect or Phyllomorpha paradoxa 652
- the Brachycerus, African ground weevil, or !nu !nurussi 792
- the Mason Wasp, or !gabbaken-!gabbaken 676
- the names of 346, 347
- the |goro moth which foretells the killing of ostriches 481
- the ||noruko djo-djo, a butterfly or moth 967
- used in healing 792
- used to cure children 792
- which is poisonous 346, 347
- women address it and place it on their hands 469
- ||kabbo, a 'Mantis's man' 818

insects
- a description of 794
- and healing 331
- found at ≠kasin's place 331
- found in Bushmanland 791, 794
- found in the ground 791
- found in |han≠kass'o's country 794
- identified by |han≠kass'o at the SA Museum 791
- names and descriptions of 791
- names of, given at the SA Museum 791
- that are eaten by people 791
- that are poisonous 791
- that bite 791
- that sing 791
- the names of 794
- the uses for 794
- used in making of medicine 331

insert
- Lloyd's Book II-36 or BC151_A2_1_043 307

inserts
- found in Bleek's Book XXV 106
- found in Bleek's Book XXVII 122

instruction
- see education 389

intercourse
- the Kwa-kkwara lies with and 'marries' a girl 405
- the story of the Kwa-kkwara 405

intoxicant
- and where Ssho |oa is found 312
- gambro 742
- rain protects frogs 742
- Ssho |oa makes the game act foolishly 312
- Ssho |oa's smell is feared 312

intoxicate
- |u' ||ke' or Tshaka plant intoxicates people 1096
- |u' ||ke' plant intoxicates people 1095

intoxication
- and food eaten and avoided by !nanni and Tamme's people 996
- and illness 1007
- and poisonous plants 338
- from eating too much of the Maiya plant 1086
- of the !kun from dacca 1007

Isabella Lloyd
- Kora words taken by 1159

jackal
- 'does not a little fear' 744
- a kaross made from its skin 745
- actions of 23
- and !kun customs at death 1049
- and a lion 23
- and beasts of prey 263
- and Day's Heart star's discourse 263
- and doings of a family of lions 245
- and leopard 1157
- and porcupine Koa fable 1157
- and the dead man's dress 1049
- and the dead man's skin back apron 1049
- and the lion who hold up the cliff 1157
- and time of day 230, 232, 263
- angers others 263
- cannot hunt 263
- children become cowards from eating its heart 744
- children do not eat its heart 744
- cooking and eating 745
- diet of 263
- doings of 23
- eating its heart causes cowardice 745
- eats flesh from ostrich's backbone 233
- eats hastily 263
- fears things 744
- feeds its children springbok 232
- fights its fellows 263
- finds its buried food by smelling it in the wind 743
- goes smelling along 743
- habits of 23, 743
- has a cold heart 263
- how sorcerers sometimes assume the form of a jackal or of a bird 455
- hunting of with a dog 161
- hunting, preparation and eating of 163
- is 'wont to run away' 744
- is a coward 744
- is clever 263
- is foolish 263
- is intelligent 704
- is killed by leopards and lions 263
- is timid 704
- is timid, cowardly 263
- its 'plenty' 743
- its actions while hunting 263
- its behaviour when it is a sorcerer 455
- its behaviour with food 743
- its call 263, 743
- its diet 230, 232, 233, 743
- its doings 263
- its hair used in the making of the !nabbe, a tail-hair brush 672
- its hunting 232
- its hunting habits 230
- its name 263
- its nature and habits 230, 232, 233, 245, 744
- its nature, habits and actions 704
- its special speech 230
- its tail and feet used in the dress of the dead 1049
- Jackal and Hyena 263
- lives in the veldt 1157
- many killed by Tsatsi's dog 745
- men can eat 16
- Moon and Sun and Hares 1107
- people laugh at 704
- prohibitions about eating 16
- resembles or behaves like a man 743
- runs about seeking its food 743
- runs against the wind 743
- sorcerers watch over their people in its form 455
- speaks to its mates 743
- steals 263
- stores food 743
- takes lion's food 245
- the eating of 16
- the Hare in the form of 1107
- the Hare insists he is one 1107
- the Jackal's speech 263
- the Moon gives jackal its skin 1107
- the nature and habits of 263
- Tsatsi does not eat 745
- watches the lion eat the springbok 23
- what people say when they hear it call 743
- who can eat 16
- women do not eat 16

Jackal
- !gwiten 86
- !gwiten's song 86
- 'crosser of the spoor' 86
- 'thinking strings' of 45
- 'whines with uplifted tongue' 28
- accounting for behaviour of jackals 45
- accounting for doings of 342, 343
- actions of 28, 86
- actions of jackals 45
- and Anteater's laws 190, 198
- and Hyena's quagga 401
- and Hyenas 401
- and Lion 341, 342
- and sorceress 342
- and the hunting dog 86
- and the Hyena's revenge 843
- and the ostrich eggs 45
- and the Ostrich eggs 60
- and the riem or thong 401
- and the song of the Caama Fox 86
- another version of the story of the Lion and the Jackals 343
- appearance of jackals 45
- avoidance behaviour of 86
- avoids the dog 86
- begs the Leopard for springbok flesh 28
- Black Crow calling 49
- builds a house of sticks 401
- burns Hyena 401
- Caama Fox 86
- call of jackals 45
- called a |kerre 45
- calls the Blue Crane 49
- can defeat a Lion even though little 343
- chased by dog 86
- cub 86
- Day's Heart and 45
- defeats and masters Lion 342, 343
- diet of jackals 45
- does not eat other jackals 45
- doings of 28, 86
- doings of jackals 45
- doubles back 86
- fears the She-Rhinoceros 622
- food eaten by jackals 45
- habits of 28, 86, 190
- his house 343
- his mud fight with the Lion 843
- his people 342
- his people say he has married meat 372
- his wife 401
- house of 45
- how the Jackal deceived the Hyena 401
- howls 28
- hunting behaviour of jackals 45
- hunting habits of jackals 45
- is a bad shot 45
- is a person of the Early Race 843
- is a suitor 622
- is a teasing person 843
- is clever 342, 343
- is jealous of the She-Lynx 45
- its revenge on Day's Heart child's mother 256
- its story 190
- Jackal's cook Quagga 372
- Jackal's cooking pots 372
- Jackal's song 86
- Jackal's taste Quagga's liver 372
- kills Lion with a heated stone 343
- kills people with its cunning 401
- leopards and jackals 28
- Lions and Jackals 341
- little 86
- lives in a hole 45
- marries elder sister 198
- marries own kind 45
- marry own kind 190
- must marry a jackal 45
- name of 86
- noises made by 28
- pierces his wife with bones 372
- poisons Day's Heart child's mother 256
- poisons his wife the Quagga 372
- poisons the She-Lynx with her milk 45
- resurrection of the He-Ostrich and 60
- runs away 45
- shoots eland 341, 343
- sings and throws mud quickly 843
- story of the Lion and the Jackals 342
- talks with its peculiar click 49
- the eland, his prey 342
- the Lion steals his prey, the eland 343
- the nature and habits of 342
- the Quagga's story 372
- the She-Rhinoceros and her elder daughter's suitors 622
- the Silver Fox throws a stick at 622
- the sorceress advises 343
- tricks and deceives 342
- tricks Lion 343
- Vulpes Caama 86
- wants Day's Heart's child as her daughter 49
- was a man 343
- was a person 342
- young 86
- |xam name of 45

jackal cloud
- 'a jackal appears to be coming' 815
- and modes of addressing rain 815
- and the coming of springbok 814
- become black and are called 'jackal' 815
- brings the cold 814
- herald and bring rain 815
- in the south 814
- is black 814
- people must 'make nice the house' when they see 814
- rain–clouds 814
- the appearance of means rain 814
- the people prepare for rain when they see it 814
- the rain 'lays them down' as it returns to the northeast 814
- wets the people 814
- what people say to 815

jackals
- and Day's Heart star's discourse 266
- and Ichneumon's discourse 272
- and more about sorcerers 494
- and time of day 266
- and vultures 266
- appearance of 266
- are foolish 266
- fear others 266
- how they hunt 266
- Hyena takes springbok away from Jackals 266
- Jackal and Hyena 266
- places where they have urinated are avoided 896
- sorcerers assume the form of 494
- the Jackal's speech 266
- the nature and habits of 266, 272
- the sorcerers' transformation into 494
- their call 266
- their diet 266
- their doings 266

Jackals
- and the Quagga who was poisoned by her husband 894
- are the young He-Dog's people 894
- cry at the loss of the Quagga's fat 894
- follow the Quagga's spoor 894
- live at the water-pool 894
- skin and cut up the Quagga 894
- taste the Quagga's liver 894
- the little Quagga breaks their pot 894
- the little Quagga climbs their house of branches 894

Jacob Nein
- and a leopard 25
- and his wife 25
- and Oud Andries 25
- and the Breakwater 25
- and white men 25
- and ||kabbo's capture 27
- bitten by a leopard 25
- cries 25
- his 'eye's tears' 25
- his personal history 25
- his |xam name 25, 27
- names of his relations 27
- the sewing of his head-wound 25
- |kann 25, 27

Jan Plat
- and Dia!kwain 572
- and Friedrich Hortnoop 572
- and his wife 572
- at Breakwater 486
- at Charlton House, Mowbray 571
- at Mowbray in 1884 486
- Friedrich Hortnoop left Mowbray with 574
- Friedrich Hortnoop's personal history 574
- he leaves Calvinia with Dia!kwain 572
- his genealogy 486, 571, 572
- his origins 572
- his personal history 486, 539, 571
- his place 572
- his prisoner number was 7880 486
- his relations 572
- his return to Bushmanland 572
- his story about the death of his brother Ruyter 539
- his travelling companions 572
- his travels 572
- his travels with Dia!kwain 571
- killed a sheep 'for hunger' 486
- the name of his employer 486
- the names of his relations 486, 539, 571
- the personal history of 572
- was related to Dia!kwain by marriage 486
- when he left Mowbray 572

Jemima Bleek
- her !kun interviews in 1879 2023
- her !kun notebook 2023
- her 'Hottentot' interviews in 1879 2024
- her 'Hottentot' notebook 2024

jewellery
- bead 18
- beads made of ostrich eggshell 801
- Bushman 18
- chain 806
- ear-piercing 18
- identified by |han≠kass'o in rock painting copy no. 2 801
- made of bone 806
- of 'Har River Bushmen' 806
- of the 'Mountain Bushmen' 806
- the !k'anni, worn by men and women 841
- the making of 257
- the necklace worn by women to frighten away the ||hin snake 1100
- thong 806
- tied to the hair 841
- worn by Day's Heart star's wife 256
- worn by different groups of |xam 801, 806
- worn by the |xam 18
- worn by women 257
- worn in ear 18
- worn on head 257
- |han≠kass'o's description of in rock painting copy no. 5 806

journey
- and |uma's capture 1112
- of |uma and Da to the Cape 1112
- ||kabbo's capture 27
- ||kabbo's, to Cape Town 27

kabaka
- animals eaten by the !kun 1063

Kafir
- all came out of one hole 1147

kaross
- and burial 250
- and First Bushman girl carried away by a whirlwind 323
- and how women imitate the sound of a horse 909
- and making magic dust 497
- and protection from rain 377
- and the healer or sorcerer's ||ken dance 530
- and the making of a needle from a springbok's foreleg 440
- and the man wounded while hunting 250
- and whirlwind 323
- and windmaking 538
- avoidance behaviour relating to 497
- beating it on the ground 497
- called a !kou'ssi 885
- given by Tsatsi to |gappem-ttu 745
- healers or sorcerers are cold and must keep on theirs 530
- is a magic thing 497
- is painted with ||ka or 'rooi klip' by maidens 377
- is struck when women !kuppen 909
- is transformed 323
- lion has the power of turning itself into other things 828
- made of black jackal–hair 838
- made of one skin 885
- more about |xue 1033
- mother's little new 885
- of the Meerkats hung on the Krieboom tree 94
- of the windmaker |xannan |xannan 536
- of the |gwai who killed his sister-in-law, and was killed by his brother-in-law 838
- prohibitions relating to 497
- sewing of 440
- skin 1012
- sounds like a horse cantering when struck 909
- the bad consequences of beating it on the ground 497
- the Day's Heart star's child's mother's 256
- the lion assumes the form of a person and wears one 828
- the new maiden's becomes a springbok 323
- the old 250
- tied on with its four straps, or legs 885
- Tsatsi's, of jackal-skin 745
- used to bind up ≠nerru 885
- what it says 909
- wind in that of |xannan |xannan, the wind sorceress 538
- women 'play' it 909
- |gwai sews one from ||aitje and jackal skin 838
- |gwai's 838
- |xannan |xannan's makes wind 536
- |xue and the ostriches 1028
- |xue is transformed under 1012
- |xue's wife's 1033
- |xue's wife's |ou skin 1028
- ≠nerru does not put dusty 'Bushman rice' on hers 885
- ≠nerru's bowels are on her little back- 885
- ≠nerru's little 885

Karu
- !nanni's grandfather 1091
- !nanni's paternal grandfather 1012, 1034, 1041, 1043, 1047, 1053
- and his wife 1041
- his fight with !nanni's family 1041
- his fight with !nanni's father, ya ||ne 1041
- his prayer to the young moon 1043
- injured while out gathering poison 1053
- is beaten by his wife's father, ||namme 1041
- speaks of |xue in daytime 1047
- tells !nanni about |xue 1047
- the the young moon's story 1043
- what he taught !nanni about |xue 1034
- what he told !nanni about Hu'-we 1091
- what he told !nanni about |xue 1012

Kko-kkorro
- and the thong that broke 394
- and waterbull 394
- his story 394
- the rainmaker 394

kkuirri-ttu
- and the 'Boers' 670
- and the commando 670
- and white men 670
- his genealogy 670
- his personal history 670
- the death of 670
- the names of his relations 670

knife
- and methods of cutting meat 869
- made of stone 869
- rays of the Sun 11
- stones used in making 869
- the Sun's pierces the Moon with his 11
- used by the Sun to pierce the Moon 37
- used to cut in bloodletting 1071
- used to cut meat 869
- |kaggen and the Moon 37

knives
- ||kurru, or ||kutten-||kutten used in making 339

knobkerrie
- Karu's people beat him with knobkerries 1041
- made of bones 759
- story of !nanni's uncle 1041
- that can knock down a lion 759
- used by the men who hunted Lions with bones - further details 759
- used to kill lions 759

knobkerry
- and the Striped Mouse's fight with the Beetle 753
- with which the Striped Mouse kills the Beetle 753
- |kaggen, the Mice and the Beetle 753

Ko-bbo
- accounting for his name 435
- the naming of 435

Ko-boken
- and the !ho 499
- and the whirlwind 499
- Dia!kwain's brother 499
- was standing at dawn 499

Kora
- about four rivers 1155
- Kora fable of moon and hare 1135, 1136
- Kora story of why the Kora posess cattle 1137
- not translated 1149
- story about cleverness 1154
- story about lions and Korhaan Malkop 1139
- story about the jackal and the porcupine 1157
- story of how all came out of one hole 1147
- translated by Maingard 1154
- words 1133, 1134, 1140, 1141, 1142, 1143, 1145, 1151
- words given to Isabella Lloyd 1159

Koranna
- 'Hottentot boy carried off by Baboons' 7
- a commando 844
- and baboons 7
- and cattle 762
- and genealogies of |xam 30
- and pastoralism 762
- and personal history of ≠kasin 111
- and rock painting copy no. 2 801
- and the eating of baboons 224
- and the names of ≠kasin's father, mother and their children 334
- and the woman transformed into a lion 6
- and the |xam 111, 115
- and Ticks who are 'black' 293
- and |kaggen and Ticks 293
- and |kaggen takes away the Tick's sheep 293
- and |xam 30
- and ||kabbo's account of being caught and brought to the Breakwater 166
- and ||kabbo's account of being caught and jailed 174
- and ||kabbo's capture 27
- are told by the Bushmen about their child 7
- baboons take one of their children 7
- brought guns while they felt that they had not a little cattle 762
- commando 761, 847
- destroyed by the ||uha 761
- escape of |kannan from a commando 847
- hypnotised, made sleepy by the ||uha or Fox 761
- in |han≠kass'o's country 762
- jailed with ||kabbo 174
- killed with their own knives 761
- Kora 761, 762
- Koranna-Hottentot words 115
- language of 115
- names of stars given by ≠kasin 366
- of the Early Race 761
- poisons used by 338
- the weapons used by 762
- the youth of the Early Race of people who warned those at home of the approach of a commando 844
- the |nu-ssaiten resemble them and stab with assegais 801
- their 'war things' or war dress 844
- their child 7
- their kraal 7
- their relations with the |xam 844
- used blades before guns 762
- war party 847
- when they acquired guns 762
- ≠kasin's father 334

Koranna commando
- bound on wood-pigeon's tails 844
- debate whether to kill the youth 844
- how the youth's people fool and escape from them 844
- how they came to miss the youth's people 844
- of the Early Race 844
- pity the youth and help him dip water 844
- slaughters |kannan's people 847
- the youth who deceived one into thinking him a foolish child 844
- their 'war things' or war dress 844
- war party 847
- |kannan's escape from 847

Korannas
- !kotta-kkoe escapes from 884
- !kotta-kkoe, his brother, ostrich eggs and 884
- 'are people who shoot others' 311
- all came out of one hole 1147
- and the |xam cut themselves 311
- at the time of the Early Race 884
- carry assegais 884
- chase !kotta-kkoe and his brother 884
- cut the back of their right wrists when they fight with their fists 311
- Hart River's people 311
- people fear 884
- who are deceived by !kotta-kkoe 884

korhaan
- 'khoran' 163
- 'lies with' a girl 405
- 'the Knorhaan who married his sister' 405
- accounting for its appearance 405
- and the digging out of 'Bushman rice' 662
- deceives 405
- eaten when there are no springbok 662
- hunting, preparation and eating of 163
- impregnates a girl 405
- in the Anteater’s Laws 405
- is burnt by girl's elder brother 405
- is cunning 405
- its call 405
- its head is burnt in fire 405
- its nature and habits 238
- knorhaan 238, 405
- koran 163
- korhaan malkop 163
- korhan 238
- marries a girl 405
- name of 405
- or Koran Brandkop 405
- pretends to be a child and hides his grown-up things 405
- story of 405
- the story of the Kwa-kkwara 405

Korhaan
- accounting for its appearance 199
- and Anteater's laws 198, 199
- cursed by his brother-in-law the Steenbok 199
- how its head was burnt in fire 199
- is a person 199
- is burnt in fire 199
- is carried like a child 199
- is cursed 199
- khoran 198
- knorhaan 199
- Korhaan Malkop 199
- marked by fire 199
- marries elder sister 198, 199
- must marry own kind 199
- punished by his brother-in-law 199
- Vaal korhaan 198

korhaan malkop
- accounting for its appearance 606
- also known as the bustard, the black koran, or Eupodotis afra 605, 606
- in Early Times 606
- its actions 605
- its nature and habits 605
- its song 605, 606
- Korhaan's head was burnt in fire 606
- kwa kwara 606
- or kwa kwara 605
- sings of its head burnt in the fire 606
- what it says when startled or standing still 605

Korhaan Malkop
- and her child 1139
- and lions 1139
- Kora story of 1139

Koro-tuiten
- anoints |kaggen with its perspiration 659
- formerly a man of the Early Race 659
- is a bird 659
- its actions 659
- looking at it 659
- makes the ground hard 659
- one must share 'Bushman-rice' with 659
- |kaggen and 659

kreeboom tree
- and creation of eland 207
- Meerkat's things hang in 207

Krieboom
- Black Crow calling Jackal 49
- bow made of 49
- climbed by ||xabbiten ||xabbiten to escape baboons 551
- on the Blue Crane's shoulder 49
- tree 551

Krieboom berry
- and Heron's song 85
- and people's teeth 85
- and the song of the Blue Crane 85
- Crieboom 85
- description of 85
- eaten by 85
- eating of 85
- is 'abundant' 85
- name is one 85
- on the Blue Crane's shoulder 85
- |gara 85
- |xam name of 85

Krieboom tree
- the Ichneumon's speech and 94
- the Meerkats' things hang on 94

Kronlein
- |xam vocabulary by 52

kua kua ssi-kuiten
- and porcupine hunting 729
- or things that do not come out 729
- or things that people do not perceive 729
- the Proteles and the porcupine are 729

Kudu
- and Anteater's laws 198

kudu
- and doings of a family of lions 245
- hunted by lions 245

kwa kwara
- accounting for its appearance 605, 606
- also known as the bustard, the black koran, or Eupodotis afra 605, 606
- in Early Times 606
- its actions 605
- its head burnt in fire 605
- its nature and habits 605
- Korhaan's head was burnt in fire 606
- or korhaan malkop 605, 606
- sings of its head burnt in the fire 606
- song of 606
- the song of 605
- what it says when startled or standing still 605

lament
- and story of the widow 253
- of the sorceress !kwarra-an 397
- of the widow of the man wounded out hunting 250, 253
- the tale of a wise person or sorceress 397
- Xaa-ttin's, about the broken string and the death of the sorcerer !nuin-|kui-ten 459

language
- !kun understand that spoken by the Hai-||umm 1029
- !kun, notes on clicks 957
- 'Bushman' 488
- 'Bushman's' 831
- 'Oh old woman!' 727
- 'we understand it nicely' 775
- a story in Kareebergen Stuurmansfontein dialect 97
- a very old one spoken by people who died before the First Bushmen lived and the |xam name for them 88
- and an ignorant man digs up Ssho |oa 316
- and Koranna-|xam vocabulary 115
- and the children of First Bushmen throw the sleeping Sun into the sky 298
- and the monster ||khwai-hemm's speech 88
- and |xam dialects 775
- baboons speak Bushman, and have wives 549
- Dutch 831
- Koranna 115
- Koranna-Hottentot words 115
- many Bushmen only speak one 992
- Namaqua 115
- one that is 'different' 775
- or special speech of Baboons 666
- or ≠kakken-≠kakken 775
- speaking 'Bushman' 326
- special speech of animals 99
- speech 326
- spoken by 'Berg Bushmen' and 'River Bed people' 775
- spoken by different groups of |xam 775
- spoken by Tamme 992
- spoken by the !kun 992
- spoken by the First Bushmen 88, 298
- spoken by the Hai-||umm 1029
- spoken by the Ichneumon 94
- spoken by the |nani 1013
- spoken by |han≠kass'o's fellows 775
- spoken by |xam 488
- spoken in Bushmanland 775
- Tamme's 'speech is one, not many' 992
- the animal clicks 326
- the Blue Crane and the girls 99
- the Blue Crane's speech 99
- the great Bushman doctress and sorceress Ttanno !khauken who did not understand Dutch 436
- the Ichneumon's speech when |kaggen had taken away the Meerkats' possessions 94
- the son of |kaggen, the Baboons, and |kaggen 666
- the |xam call their's |xam ka ≠kakken ≠kakken 837
- the |xam-speaking prisoners in |han≠kass'o's dream 831
- understanding another Bushman's 775
- understanding Ssho |oa's language 316
- understood and spoken by baboons 549
- understood by Tamme 1013
- ways of speaking |xam 326
- which resembles that spoken by the Nama 775
- |xam 97, 115, 326, 488, 727
- |xam who do not speak Dutch 831
- |xam who speak and don't speak Dutch 436
- |xam-speaking people 55
- |xue speaks Berg Damara 1036
- |xue, his father and changes 1036

languages
- !nanni and his people speak and understand 974
- 'Hottentot', Namaqua and Setschuana 946
- heard in !kun country 948, 950, 951
- spoken by people in the !kun country 968
- spoken by the Ovambo, the Ovaherero and the Namaqua 968
- spoken in !kun country 974
- the language of the Ongova of Hereroland 948
- understood and spoken by Tamme and his family 968
- words and sentences in a !Ora dialect 946

laughter
- and respect for the Moon, which is not to be laughed at 874
- people laugh at the jackal and its doings 704

laws
- about marrying like 45
- about marrying own kind 45
- and beasts of prey who were once people 763
- and story of Hyena 189
- and story of Jackal 190
- and story of Silver Jackal 191
- and story of Strandwolf and Aardwolf 192
- and the Korhaan who marries his elder sister 199
- and what people eat and wear 200
- Anteater's 198
- Day's Heart and 45
- for the habits, marriages and diet of all animals 198
- governing behaviour of animals 45
- the Anteater's 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 197, 199, 200, 763
- the Anteater's, regarding the habits, diet and marriage of animals 149
- the Anteater, Springbok and Lynx 188, 197
- the korhaan must marry his own kind 199

laziness
- the |xam term for one who does not work 773
- Trina de Klerck thought |gui-an's unconsciousness was due to her 773

leopard
- 'tiger' 165
- a hunting story about 165
- advice about hunting 483
- and explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1 513
- and jackal in a Kora fable 1157
- and Jacob Nein 25
- bites Jacob Nein 25
- called !khumm by the !kun 1062
- cooking of 165
- deceives 483
- does not fear 744
- eaten by the |xam 25
- eating of 165
- habits of the hunting leopard 513
- hunting 165
- hunting leopard 513
- is brave 744
- is cunning 483
- its heart is eaten by children 744
- its nature 744
- its nature and habits 483
- lies down to deceive people 483
- Oud Dorntje catches one 165
- preparation of 165
- seems to disappear 483
- skin, |xue's 1062
- steals up on people 483
- surprises hunters 483
- the fatal hunting adventure of !kwai-!kwa and his companion 483
- warnings about hunting 483
- what mothers teach about 483
- which bites a man 13
- |xue and the bam-bam, and as other things 1062, 1062
- |xue becomes one and whistles 1062
- ≠kasin's adventure with one 336

Leopard
- 'a man who is different' 622
- accounting for behaviour of hunting leopards 45
- actions of 28, 45
- and Anteater's laws 198
- and the Anteater, the young Springbok, the Lynx and the Partridge 892
- and the Hyena-husband 45
- and the long horn 622
- and the plot to rescue the young Springbok 892
- appearance of hunting leopards 45
- courts the elder daughter 622
- Day's Heart and 45
- diet of hunting leopards 45
- doings of 28, 45
- eating habits of hunting leopards 45
- fights the She-Rhinoceros 622
- habits of 28, 45
- hunting habits of hunting leopards 45
- hunting leopard 45
- is another kind of beast of prey 45
- is not afraid of the She-Rhinoceros 622
- is one of the Lynx's people 892
- kills Jackal 28
- leopards and jackals 28
- marries a hunting leopard 45
- marries his elder sister 198
- marries the elder daughter 622
- puts the Jackal's body in a bush 28
- says that the Lynx must marry the young Springbok 892
- the brave suitor 622
- the Jackal begs for springbok from 28
- the She-Rhinoceros and her elder daughter's suitors 622

Leopard Tortoise
- asks for assistance 388
- asks to be anointed 388
- called |go ka kkumm 388
- deceives and traps men of First Bushmen in her neck-shell 388
- feigns illness 388
- is cunning 388
- Testudo pardalis 388
- the Great Water Tortoise, who deceived men 388
- waterschilpad 388

leopard tortoise
- is the rain's animal 740
- Testudo leopardis 740

leopards
- and |xam 260
- are 'different' 260
- the nature and habits of 260

letters
- 'Bushman letters' 287
- 'speak truly' 287
- a beating of the flesh, which tells the |xam things 287
- and knowing people are coming 287
- are in people's bodies 287
- at 'old wound's place' 287
- called |kumm 287
- presentiments 287
- presentiments of things that are going to happen 287

leveret
- and 'playing' with meat 698
- or hare 698
- the killing of |han≠kass'o's pet 698

lice
- 'biting hurt' the head 99
- and the !num !num moth 480
- and the Blue Crane and the girls 99
- eating 99
- on the Blue Crane's head 99

lie down
- and burning blood in buchu 716
- and successful springbok hunting after the death of a companion 716
- and the 'blood clot' 706
- ceremonies performed to ensure that springbok do so 716
- making the springbok 716
- making the springbok die from its wounds 706

lightning
- a maiden who snaps her fingers at the rain causes 510
- and 'killing' rain on the hunting–ground 452
- and actions of maidens 377
- and an angry or 'killing' rain 510
- and beating a stone on the ground 1010
- and clouds 902
- and darkness's rain 813
- and how maidens adorn young men as protection from 378
- and painting and adornment with ||ka or 'rooi klip' 377
- and rain 377
- and rainmaking 1010
- and stars and death 531
- and the angry or 'killing' rain 511
- and the angry rain 378
- and the clouds' thundering 902
- and the girl who snaps her fingers at her parents and the rain 509
- and the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- and the rain 900
- and the Water's story 378
- and the water-pool called |uha 758
- and the weather 900
- and thunder 902
- and ≠kagara's fight with !haunu 900
- black, that resembles a gun 900
- called ||ke-||kamminya 758
- caused by an angry rain 509
- caused by Dia!kwain playing his bow in a thunderstorm 511
- kills young men on hunting-ground 377
- maidens killed by transformed into flowers 531
- on the hunting ground 378
- protection from 377, 1010
- rain 'shoots' like a girl does 510
- rain kills with because it feels the girl does not protect the people 452
- sent by !haunu 900
- that comes stealthily 902
- that is black kills people 902
- that is feared 902
- that is stealthy 900
- that no-one sees coming 902
- that resembles a gun 902
- that startles the people 900
- that thunders 900
- the place where the rain 'lightens' and kills 531
- the rain makes young men sick with sores from 378
- the sound of 902
- water's 758
- women say 'Fall into the water!' 1010
- ≠kagara fends it off 900

Lion
- 'becomes' a man 769
- a man falls on 5, 24
- accounting for the noise it makes 77
- actions of 62
- and a man 5
- and a |xam man 24
- and Anteater's laws 198
- and Fieldmouse 77
- and fight of ≠gebbi-ggu 406
- and Foulmouth 187
- and how it got its roar 77
- and Hyena 194
- and Hyena's revenge 171, 194
- and its child 1009
- and Jackal 342
- and Ostrich 406
- and pot of soup 194
- and roar of Ostrich 406
- and the !khau 768
- and the advice Dia!kwain's mother gave him about the tortoise 124
- and the decayed piece 187
- and the Hyena 1009, 1009
- and the Hyena's revenge 843
- and the Muishond 187
- and the revenge of the Tortoise 124
- and the Tortoise 186
- and Tortoise 62
- and vultures 769
- and |gi 243
- and |kaggen 210
- and |ki 243
- angers Hyena 171
- asks the Hyena to come into its house 1009
- bad luck of in finding food 123
- becomes a star 17
- can talk 123
- can transform itself into a man 769
- chases a man up a tree 5, 24
- chases his 'comrades' 752
- chest of is small 77
- cub frightened by |kaggen 243
- deceives 769
- deceives Hyena 171
- died of hunger 123
- does not like the Hyena's speech 1009
- doings of 62
- eaten by the men of the Early Race 756
- exchanges its chest with the Fieldmouse 77
- eyebrow hair of 62
- eyebrows of 62
- feeds the Hyena 'fire things' 1009
- feels it resembles a real man 769
- feet of are pierced by thorns 123
- fights Ostrich 406
- habits of 62
- has hands 123
- helpful 123
- his 'eyes burning burst', killing him 843
- his contest with Ostrich 406
- his head is burnt in the cooking pot 843
- his house 210
- his mud fight with the Jackal 843
- his roar 406
- hunted by men of the Early Race with bones 756
- hunting disappointments of 62
- imitates a person 769
- is a man 123
- is a person of the Early Race 123, 843
- is a star 17
- is blinded by mud 843
- is clever 769
- is defeated by Jackal 342
- is feared 77
- is foolish 123
- is jealous 406
- is killed by heated stone in his mouth 342
- is killed by the Hyena 843
- is tricked by the Hyena 843
- it talks 1009
- its 'eared head's shadow' 768
- its eyes 'shining approach' 756
- its eyes are thought to be stars 756
- its fight with the Ostrich over the ≠gebbi-ggu 541
- its house 1009
- its nature and habits 756
- its speech 1009
- its story 376, 1009
- killed by Hyena 171
- kills a Bushman 62
- kills the Hyena's wife Auru, the |go |go'ken or Tortoise 843
- Lions and Jackals 341
- little 210
- lives in the reeds 752
- makes itself resemble a man 769
- marries elder sister 198
- mistreats Jackal 342
- mother 210
- names of the two Lions 17
- of the two Lions !haue ta ≠hou and !gu 123
- of the two Lions !haue ta ≠hóu and !gu 62
- people chase 62
- people fear 62
- pierced by the thornbush 187
- pierces the Hyena's hindleg 1009
- pretends to be a man 769
- pulls its tail over its head 769
- puts the |go |go'ken's head in his bag 843
- reduced to 'pure bones' 123
- roars 77
- roars with his tail in his mouth 406
- scratches Ostrich with his claws 406
- sings and throws mud slowly 843
- stands in the sky 17
- star 17
- steals eland, Jackal's prey 342
- steals Jackal's eland 341
- story of the Lion and the Jackals 342
- strives for mastery 342
- swallows the Tortoise 123
- swallows the Tortoise whole 62
- takes up the Tortoise 123
- talks only at night 1009
- that chases man of Early Race 376
- the Hyena puts his body in a tree 843
- the Lions and the Ostriches 406
- the Lions, the Tortoise, the little Hare and the old woman 123
- the man's escape from 376
- the names of two Lions 186
- the nature and actions of 769
- the nature and habits of lions 752
- the shadow of its head 768
- the Tortoise stands above the eyebrows of 62
- the Tortoise stands in front of the forehead of 123
- the Tortoise warns prey of 123
- the Tortoise's revenge on 123
- the two Lions 17, 186, 187
- the two Lions are pointers to the Southern Cross 187
- the women do not applaud him 406
- the youth becomes one to kill his sister-in-law 752
- the youth of the Early Race put into a mouse skin who becomes a lion 752
- tormented 123
- turns into a man 769
- two Lions or pointers to the Southern Cross 17
- unsuccessful hunt of 123
- walks like a man 769
- wants the Fieldmouse's chest 77
- wants to make louder noise 77
- wants to resemble Ostrich 406
- was formerly a person 541
- was formerly a person and didn't eat raw food 406
- who carries off the !khau 768
- who died of hunger 124
- who swallows a Tortoise 186
- why it became an animal 541
- why the ≠gebbi-ggu left it 541
- |kaggen pretends he has left one of his veldschoens behind and becomes 243
- |kaggen, Ichneumon and |kwammana go to his house 210
- |kantsi thorns pierce its feet 376

lion
- !kaua doro and the 785, 786
- !kun beliefs about 1064
- !nuin-|kui-ten became one to watch over his people 458
- !nuin-|kui-ten killed a 'Boer's' ox when one 458
- 'May a lion take thee!' 1025
- 'May the lion take |xue!' 1021
- 'snoring' out of, by the 'Bushman doctor', sorcerer or !gixa 782
- 'terror kills us' 828
- 'understands' 245
- 'wants to be a red ball to us' 726
- 'works' things 425
- a !kun song of 981
- a verse 1064
- a warning about 423
- a wild cat becomes one to kill the hunter 864
- actions of 23
- acts like a man 421
- and !kun curse 1025
- and !nuin-|kui-ten who was a sorcerer or magician 458
- and bones made into knobkerries 759
- and child who saves its parents 382
- and cursing 1021
- and Dia!kwain's sister |a-kkumm 445
- and First Bushman 283
- and flies 423, 827
- and flies, which inform it 447
- and further details of the men who hunted Lions with bones 759
- and giraffe 170
- and Griesbaart 46
- and jackal in a Kora fable 1157
- and leopards 13
- and man who went to sleep when out hunting alone 384
- and the 'apparition' that comes before it does 626
- and the 'Bushman witchdoctor' or doctor 175
- and the 'cave hole's earth' 450
- and the Bushman doctress and sorceress Ttanno !khauken 433
- and the child who makes light of it 827
- and the conduct of the owl 445
- and the Day's Heart star's discourse 266
- and the fly 421
- and the game that takes hunters to their deaths 424
- and the giraffe 22
- and the jackal 23
- and the Jackal's speech 266
- and the man who sought refuge from the rain in a cave 449
- and the owl and the black crow 431
- and the scent of the fire 431
- and the sun 445, 449
- and the twilight 827
- and the younger brother's wind 759
- and the |xam 382
- and vultures 245
- and water-holes 447
- and what parts of game should not be eaten by little children 424
- and what Xwerri-kau ate as a child 424
- and why people should not sleep 830
- and Xwerri-kau 424
- and Xwerri-kau's story 423
- and ≠kasin's brother and father 335
- and ≠kasin's hunting adventures 349
- assumes the form of a person in a kaross 828
- assuming the form of a 6
- attacks grown-ups 829
- avoidance behaviour relating to 447
- avoidance behaviour relating to the saying of its name 423
- avoidance of its name 421
- avoidances regarding lions 421
- avoiding attacks by 450
- avoiding saying its name 421
- becomes a hartebeest to trick people 828
- bones that can kill it or knock it down 759
- called |kerre-|e 829
- calling its name 829
- can feign death 759
- can make things obey its will 425
- can transform itself 828
- cat 782
- catches people in their sleep 830
- chasing with heated embers 244
- children call it Hair 423
- children do not say its name at night 829
- children must respect his name 423
- children slight it by saying its name 829
- children taught to use another name 423
- come at night 827
- comes at night 726
- comes at night and drags people away 830
- comes to fight with us 829
- deceives 445
- deceives people 447, 450, 830
- deceives so it can kill people 828
- disrespecting or playing with its name 423
- does not go by day 449
- does not kill children 829
- doings of 23, 266, 382
- dreams 421, 425
- eating of 996
- eats all things 244
- eats and kills people 450
- eats food of darkness, of night 283
- eats people 244, 283
- fears twirling, sparkling buttons and reflected lights 450
- flies come out of its body 827
- flies comes from its armpit 827
- flies tell him things 423
- flies tell it that a person intends to fetch water 447
- flies tell it things 421
- frightens people at night 421
- gets angry 421
- ghost of 88
- goes by night 829
- habits of 23
- hair 175
- hair on sorcerer's back 175
- has magic powers 828
- has power over the sun 447
- has premonitions 424
- has the power of turning itself into other things 828
- having eaten one man it will search for another 228
- holds up a cliff 1157
- how to escape 450
- hunts the giraffe 22
- hyena and 46
- Ichneumon’s speech about 244, 245
- insulting or slighting it by saying its name 829
- is a 'harm's thing' 782
- is a beast of prey 228, 283, 421, 424, 425
- is a thing that does not come for people when the sun stands in the sky 449
- is cunning 244, 421, 445, 447, 449, 450, 828
- is different 228, 283
- is feared 726, 829
- is great 245
- is nocturnal 421
- it 'works things' 425
- its 'thinking strings' 245
- its 'thoughts talk' 245
- its actions and doings 1064
- its actions and habits 828
- its apparition 88
- its cunning is that of a man 450
- its diet 244, 245
- its dream 424, 425
- its eyes 'shining approach' 759
- its eyes are thought to be stars 759
- its feelings 425
- its fly 827
- its hunting methods 244, 245
- its killing place 421
- its magic powers 447
- its name 283
- its nature and habits 244, 245, 384, 421, 425, 445, 447, 449, 450, 626, 759
- its other name is Hair 423
- its power 447
- its power over the waterskin 447
- its powers 449
- its premonitions 425
- its revenge on a grown-up who disrespected it as a child 827
- its revenge on the hunting-ground 423
- its shadows 349
- its spoor 421, 830
- its story 382
- its ways of catching people 445
- its young 283
- keeping it away 827
- kills !khwe-|na ssho-!kui 283
- kills an old man 349
- kills people 726
- knows what people are saying 421
- laughing at 1064
- lions dream and have premonitions 425
- made use of as a dog 283
- makes people sleepy 384
- makes the rain fall 449
- makes waterbags leak 447
- methods of chasing away 244
- methods of taking its prey 421
- owls fly in front of one that approaches 827
- people do not see its spoor and sleep 830
- people lie in wait for it in its hartebeest-form 828
- people should watch and listen for 830
- playing with its name 421
- preceded by an apparition which resembles a real 626
- prohibitions regarding 423
- prohibitions regarding the saying of its name 829
- prohibitions relating to 421
- protection from 827
- puts game in trees 421
- remains dead 759
- remembers what children do 423
- respect for 421, 423
- respect for its name 423
- respecting 829, 1064
- respecting and fearing 827
- ribs of broken by the giraffe 22
- saying, 'playing with' or disrespecting its name 421
- seeing its spoor and making hand gestures 421
- signs of the approach of one 827
- signs that mean 'lion' 421
- smells bad 827
- smells like a person 450
- sorcerers become 458
- speaks in a man's voice 445
- speaks with its tail in its mouth 445
- stealing game from 421
- steals up on people 244
- takes ||xuobbeten to the waterpit 700
- talks to the people 449
- teaching about 431
- teachings about 421, 423
- tells people not to laugh at it 1064
- that carried off ≠kasin's eldest brother and wounded his father 335
- that kills a man 10, 228
- the 'sneezing' out of 782
- the 'thing whose head's darkness it is' 829
- the actions and habits of 726, 829, 830
- the appearance of the young Lion 283
- the coming of 431, 626
- the darkness is its shadow 829
- the doctor makes the sounds of 782
- the doings of 283
- the doings of a family of lions 245
- the fly smells like 827
- the gemsbok who became one when hunted 921
- the giraffe falls on 22
- the habits and actions of 827
- the hunting and eating of 759
- the jackal watches it eat the springbok 23
- the Lion comes for man whose tears it licked 384
- the Lion licks the man's 'eye's tears' 384
- the man who sought refuge from the rain in a cave and found a lion there 449
- the mother calls 283
- the name of 759
- the name of the young Lion 283
- the nature and habits of 228, 283, 424
- the owl and crow warn of the approach of 431
- the owl is believed to foretell the coming of one 827
- the owl warns of its approach 445
- the people fear and throw fire at 283
- the people move to another place 228
- the people of the Early Race called it ||kuamma 759
- the search for missing man 228
- the shadow of its head at night 829
- the taking out of 782
- the things it does to catch people 449
- the transformation of the wild cat into 830
- the ways it catches and kills people 447
- the wild cat changes itself into one and kills the slayer of wild cats 830
- the young Lion remembers and seeks his Lion parents 283
- the young Lion swallows whole 283
- the young Lion's name is a dog's 283
- thigh of is bitten by the hyena 46
- things that it fears 450
- threatens the people at their fire 449
- tracks man 228
- Ttai-tchuen with a lioness who had young cubs 450
- Ttanno !khauken changes herself into a lioness to see what her people are doing and to take care of them 433
- waits for a child to grow up before killing it 829
- waits for the dark 726
- waits in the grove 726
- waits till children grow up 423
- want to catch people out in the veld away from home 447
- warnings about 431
- was killed by !kweiten ta ||ken's father 383
- ways of dealing with one 450
- what children do when they see its spoor 421
- what happens if a child insults one 827
- what it does with its prey 421
- what it says 1064
- what it says to |a-kkumm 445
- what the !kun call it to avoid using its name 1008
- what the people call it 829
- what |han≠kass'o's grandfather told him about 726
- what |han≠kass'o's grandfather, Tsatsi, told him about 827
- when its head comes into sight 626
- which bites a man 13
- which killed Xurri ko 383
- which places the man's body in shade of tree 13
- who can say its name 423
- who carries away and kills a man and the search for the lost man 228
- why it kills people when they are grown-ups 829
- why people throw fire at owls 827
- wife of Day's Heart star becomes a lioness 152
- wild cat possesses the power of turning itself into 830
- wild cats become one at sunset 830
- woman transformed into a 6
- woman with the skin of a 6
- young Lion and !khwe-|na ssho-!kui 283
- young Lion called !kuisse !khwi |ku 283
- [not translated] 785
- |a!karaken killed by a 726
- |xue and his father-in-law 1021
- |xue as tchaxa 1024
- |xue becomes 1024
- |xue covered in its hair 1024
- ||kabbo sees a spectre-lion 88
- ||kabbo's adventure with 172
- ||xuobbeten and 700

Lion's man
- the two Lions: pointers to the Southern Cross 185

lioness
- 'milks' on people 450
- do not let people leave 450
- her actions when with cubs 450
- her den 450
- her milk 450
- is affectionate 450
- resembles dogs which love people 450
- teachings about 450
- the nature and habits of 450
- Ttai-tchuen with a lioness who had young cubs 450

Lioness
- and her adopted daughter, Tssi-!kuara |hin or Biting-Torn-Away 835
- and the grandmothers, !kwa-!kwa and !kwa-kau 835
- and the timid child 835
- bites open a woman and takes her baby 835
- Biting-Torn-Away advises her husband on her doings 835
- collects other people's children 837
- Ddi xerreten and 837
- her actions 835
- her efforts to steal up on her adopted daughter's husband 835
- her head vanishes 835
- hunts the gemsbok 835
- hurts her teeth on Ddi xerreten's stone head 837
- is a person of the Early Race 835
- is an invalid on account of her chest 837
- is killed by Biting-Torn-Away and her husband 835
- is not eaten because she is a person 835
- kills gemsbok and collects water using its stomach 837
- loves the children 837
- needs the children to work for her 837
- people do not see her come 835
- raises Biting-Torn-Away as her own 835
- sings to the children at the water 835
- takes children who are not hers 837
- the place where her 'head's little piece shall become black' 835
- the place where she vanishes 835
- wound up in thong 835

lions
- 'Let the lion take this person' 1017
- 'May the lion eat this person!' 1017
- about sorcerers 396
- and !kweiten ta ||ken's elder sister, |a khumm 385
- and cursing by the !kun 1017
- and Day's Heart star's discourse 266
- and flies 266
- and foolish behaviour 260
- and Korhaan Malkop 1139
- and looking at the Moon as it comes out 302
- and people 260
- and story of Lion and cooking pot 266
- and the actions of game 427
- and the Jackal's speech 266
- and the man who falls asleep while out hunting 420
- and the springbok's story 427
- and |xam 260
- are 'angry folk' 260
- are 'great cave hole's things' 260
- are cunning 385, 420
- are sorcerers 420, 420
- call and sound like man 385
- children who call its name 266
- come in darkness 302
- customs relating to 260
- die only when the man they seek is dead 420
- dreams 266
- game knows when they are near 427
- habits of 420
- how people protect themselves from 260
- in ||kabbo's dream, which talked 268
- is an 'angry man' 266
- its thoughts talk 266
- Kora stoy of 1139
- make people sleepy 420
- marry their own kind 260
- methods of driving them away 260
- resemble a person 385
- sorcerers are like 720
- sorcerers become 396
- speak with their tails in their mouths 385
- stand fast 164
- steal people at night 260
- teachings about, 'understanding' their doings 385
- the appearance of 260
- the doings of 266
- the game leads hunters to 427
- the Lion and the man of the Early Race 420
- the Lion and the man's story 420
- the Lion licks the man's 'eye's tears' 420
- the Lion star 164
- the Lion wants the man whose tears it licked 420
- the nature and habits of 260, 266, 420
- the two Lions are pointers to Southern Cross 164
- the ways they catch people 385
- their nature and habits 385
- trick and deceive people 385
- walk 164
- were once numerous in Bushmanland 385
- who are 'different' 260
- who are men 164
- who are people 164
- wives of 164
- won't leave their prey 420

Lions
- !gu eats people 925
- !gu eats people but !haue ta ≠hou does not 926
- !gu persuades !haue ta ≠hou to eat people's flesh 925
- !gu understands 929
- !haue ta ≠hou scolds !gu 926
- and Blue Crane 185
- and Crow 185
- and the Lizards, the Blue Crane, the Rhebok and the Black Crow 772
- and the old man who cut off his leg 566
- and the old man who escapes them by cutting off his leg 567
- and the Rhebok's moving stones 772
- and their doings 926
- and |gi and |ki 178
- are hurt by stones 772
- are people of the Early Race 772, 925, 926, 929
- are tricked by the young woman 929
- blame each other for the young woman's escape 929
- called !gu and !haue ta ≠hou 772
- cut up meat with stone knives 929
- how !gu tricks !haue ta ≠hou into tasting human, the Blue Crane's flesh 926
- how the Blue Crane vainly sought for !kuommain |ka ||kau and was killed and eaten by 925
- how the young woman escapes them 929
- hurt their teeth biting the rocks 929
- kill and eat the Blue Crane 925
- kill |gi and !khau 772
- lose the Blue Crane's bone 925
- names of 185
- one attempts to ascend a thong 772
- one attempts to catch the Rhebok |ke-dde 772
- one falls on the Black Crow's heated stones 772
- one is killed in the Black Crow's fire 772
- pointers to Southern Cross 185
- pretend to be husbands 772
- run after the disappearing water 929
- scratch for the lizards 772
- stars 185
- the Lion star 178
- the old man's song 567
- the old man, the little Hare and the travelling 566
- the two 178, 772
- the two Lions 185
- the two Lions !gu and !haue ta ≠hou 926
- the two Lions are called !gu and !haue ta ≠hou 925
- the two Lions called !haue ta ≠hou and !gu 929
- the young woman who disobeyed her mother and fell in with them 929
- the young woman's nipple or piece of flesh talks to them 929
- they want the Rhebok and the Blue Crane as wives 772
- who are men 185
- who are stars 178
- who talk 185
- who were formerly men 178

liver
- of the Quagga who was poisoned by her husband 894
- the Quagga does not let people taste hers 894

Lizard
- !khau 212
- !khauw 212
- and the two Lions, the Blue Crane, the Rhebok and the Black Crow 772
- and |kaggen and Great Tortoise 212
- are killed by the two Lions 772
- called !khau 772
- called |gi 772
- called ||horu 772
- deceived by |kaggen 212
- lizards are husbands of the Blue Crane and the Rhebok 772
- of the Early Race 772
- the wife of 772

lizard
- !kau or !khau 768
- !khau 613
- !khau or !kau 691, 698
- a description of 752, 931
- a person of the Early Race 697
- Agama 698
- Agama lizard 691
- and the !kain who snatched off the hair of the Ostrich's head 905
- and the Early Race 696
- called ||horu 931
- eaten by children 931
- is poked out with a stick 931
- its head is pierced by sharp sticks 931
- kochelman 613
- methods of catching 931
- of the Early Race 768
- of the genus Agama 613, 678, 696, 697, 768, 905
- of the genus Agama or !khau 906
- poking out is called ||noten 931
- remarks by |han≠kass'o on the story of the death of the !khau 697
- song of the !khau's child 691
- the !khau 696
- the !khau lizard and the rain–clouds 613
- the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food 678
- the !khau who takes the !kain's head's hair 905
- the !khau, or !kau 697
- the death of the !khau 696
- the kochelman 696, 697, 698
- the Lizard, the Mice and |kaggen 906
- the occasion upon which the story of the !khau was related to |han≠kass'o by his mother 698
- the sister-in-law of the youth is one 752
- the song of the Agama lizard 906
- the Tarru-ggu, or akkedis 752

lizards
- and spirits of the dead 1101
- and the young woman who disobeyed her mother and fell in with the two Lions 929
- are found in rocks 929
- are not killed when near graves 1101
- methods of poking them out 929
- that are feared 1101

location
- and the signs made when leaving a place 859
- of a new place 859
- signs left so a person can find his people at a new 859

locust
- 'leaving alone' 638
- 'locust-thirst' 638, 657
- a description of a 'body' or swarm 638
- Acridium ruficorne 649
- and birds and jackals 638
- and bushes 638
- and gambro 638
- and sorcerers 638
- and sunset 638
- and the times of day 638
- and the wind 649
- and times of day 657
- and |kui sse 638
- avoidance behaviour relating to 638
- burning and killing 638
- drinking water and collecting it 638
- fires must be made at the place where locusts settle 638
- grasshopper or !gau 1030
- grown, created by the rainmaker |kannu 638
- its Dutch name is springkaan 631
- its eggs 638
- its proper name, or Latin name 631
- or common Cape locust, or grasshopper 631
- or ||kabba-|kha 649
- people eat 657
- picking it up properly 638
- places where it settles 638
- preserving its legs 638
- real 631
- respecting 638
- settles in bushes 657
- the !na resembles 649
- the actions and habits of 638
- the actions of 631
- the appearance of 649
- the bird that eats it 631
- the collecting of 657
- the coming of 638
- the eating of 638, 657
- the male and female parts of the swarm 638
- the seeking and collecting of 638
- the treatment of 638
- the ||kerri: a bird which eats locusts; and locust-hunting 657
- things that frighten it away 638
- ways of cooking and eating 657
- what it tastes like 657
- what people call out to it 638

locust bird
- and locusts 523
- and sorcerers 523
- and the driving of the locusts 915
- and the opening of the hole 523
- and throwing stones at locusts 915
- are dangerous things or 'fighting things' 523
- are let out by sorcerers 523
- are magic things 523
- are shut in the hole 523
- comes out before the locusts 915
- eats locusts 723
- fly with locusts 523
- is like a locust 523
- or ||kerri and locusts 641
- resembles a crow 723
- the place where it is found 723
- the |harriten 723
- the ||kerri 784
- the ||kerri: a bird which eats locusts; and locust-hunting 657
- waits to be let out 523
- ||kerri 523

locust birds
- 'locust's little birds they are' 916
- and |han≠kass'o's grandfather, Tsatsi 916
- are locust's things 916
- if they are killed the locusts and the birds disappear and people become ill 916
- prohibitions relating to 916
- respecting 916
- the treatment of 916
- throwing stones at 916
- ||kerri 916

locusts
- 'flocks' of 523
- 'the berre is red, like the earth' 914
- a description of their growth 914
- a swarm of 637
- and death 523
- and how the people catch them 915
- and locust bird or ||kerri 916
- and opening the hole 523
- and sorcerers 523, 915
- and sunset 637
- and the locust bird 915
- and the locust bird or ||kerri 523
- and the locust bird, or ||kerri 523
- and the new maiden 637
- and the people living north of the Orange River 860
- and the rain 914
- and the ||kerri bird 641
- and |kui sse hair 637
- are charmed by sorcerers 523
- are dangerous things or 'fighting things' 523
- are driven by children 915
- are eaten by black men and the |xam 860
- are eaten by sorcerers 721
- are let out by sorcerers 523
- are magic things 523
- are many and there are plenty 915
- are shut in the hole 523
- avoidance behaviour relating to 523
- berre are 'still grazing at one place' 914
- berre are weak 914
- berre do not fly far 914
- berre strengthen themselves with the wind 914
- black men collect them in nets 860
- boys throw stones at 915
- breed and lay eggs 914
- come out when rain falls 914
- eaten by the |harriten or locust bird 723
- get feathers 914
- go about because of magic 523
- if the locust bird is killed they disappear 916
- make a swarm 914
- others are called ||xerre-|xam 914
- playing games with 523
- prohibitions regarding the treatment of 915
- prohibitions relating to 523, 916
- respecting 915
- respecting and fearing 523
- settle at midday 914
- some are in the dust 915
- some fly 915
- tana 914
- teachings about 523, 915
- the 'body' of 637
- the actions and habits of 641
- the composition of the swarm 915
- the driving of 915
- the eating of 523
- the girl who made 637
- the locust birds are their things 916
- the making of 637
- the males are driven 915
- the treatment of 523
- the ||kerri bird drives it in sunlight 641
- their habits 914
- their name 637
- their names at different stages of their development 914
- their young are called t'oe t'oe 914
- throwing stones at 523
- what |kaunu the rainmaker said about 914
- when grown-up are called a 'flier', or ||khou when black 914
- when strong berre fly away 914
- with wings are called berre 914
- |han≠kass'o and ||hoaken !khe were told by Tsatsi not to throw stones at 915
- |kaunu calls them out 915
- |ki |ki 914
- ||u huabba 914

Long-nosed Mice
- and |kaggen's dream 904, 906
- are killed by the Wildebeest 904
- are tricked and killed by the !khau 906
- daughter of helps the Striped Mouse 906
- daughter of marries the Striped Mouse 906
- do not return home from hunting 904, 906
- drink from the decayed stomach 906
- fear the !khau 906
- follow the springbok 906
- go into the !khau's hole 906
- hunt quaggas 904
- return to life when the Striped Mouse kills the !khau 906
- the Lizard, the Mice and |kaggen 906
- the place where they disappeared 906
- the place where they go hunting about 906
- the Striped Mouse rescues 906
- the Wildebeest blunts their arrow-heads 904
- the Wildebeest strings his entrails on their bows 904
- the Wildebeest tramples their screens of bushes 904
- the Wildebeest unloosens their bowstrings 904
- the Wildebeest, the Mice, the Quaggas and |kaggen 904
- their resurrection 906
- which are foolish 904

look
- and the ≠nabbe ta !nu or Corona Australis 319
- and what is done with a 'new' maidens 381
- glance 184
- how the look of the new maiden changed the Dassie and her people and their things into stars 319
- new maiden's look transfixes, transforms 319
- of the First Bushman girl 319
- of the new maiden 184, 319
- or gaze of the new maiden harms people 381
- transforms 184

Lynx
- -mother 262
- -wife 45
- abuses the Cat 305
- accounting for appearance of 45
- accounting for the appearance of the lynx 862
- actions of 45
- and Anteater 408
- and Anteater's laws 188, 197, 198
- and Anteater's story 373
- and Anteater, Springbok and Partridge 373
- and Day's Heart 45
- and Day's Heart star 256
- and Day's Heart star's discourse 262
- and Springbok mother 373
- and the Anteater's laws 763
- and the Anteater, the young Springbok and the Partridge 892
- and the Cat 305
- and the Cat's song 305
- and the Leopard decide to court the elder daughter 622
- and the plot to rescue the young Springbok 892
- and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara 862
- beasts of prey were once people 763
- becomes a Lioness 45
- behaviour of 45
- bites people 45
- child of 45
- curses and is cursed by the Anteater 892
- Day's Heart marries 45
- deceives the Anteater 892
- derides Cat 211
- diet of 45
- digs for food 45
- doings of 45
- ear-tufts of 45
- eats 45
- feet of 45
- flesh of 45
- grows lion-hair 45
- habits of 45
- hands of 45
- has woman's skin 45
- her name 262
- his knobkerrie 373
- is 'different' 45
- is a beast of prey 197
- is Anteater's 'heart's child' or pet 408
- is cunning 305, 892
- is Day's Heart star's child's mother 256
- is Day's Heart's wife, nuin ttarra 256
- is female 45
- is handsome 408
- is loved 408
- is not afraid of the She-Rhinoceros 622
- is rescued by Anteater 408
- is stolen by people 408
- its curse 763
- its ear tufts 862
- its nature and habits 305, 408
- Lynx-mother 256
- marries own kind 197
- marries Springbok 188
- mother of the Day's Heart star child 262
- name is Lynx 45
- name of is !ko-gen !nuin 45
- plays !kummi sweetly 408
- poisoned by Jackal and Hyena 45
- relations of 45
- rescues and marries the young Springbok 892
- rescues young Springbok 373
- runs fast 305
- sack of 45
- She-Lynx 45
- smells nice 45
- speaks for Anteater 198
- steals Springbok 188
- the Anteater follows it into earth 408
- the Anteater, Springbok and Lynx 188, 197
- the monster ||khwai-hemm's speech and 88
- the nature and habits of the lynx 892
- the She-Rhinoceros and her elder daughter's suitors 622
- the story of the Lynx and the Anteater 408
- the way he goes 373
- understands 305
- was formerly a person 373
- wife of the Day's Heart star 262
- will become a lynx and walk at night 892
- younger sister of 45
- |kaggen and the Cat 211

lynx
- and explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1 513
- and the Day's Heart star's discourse 266
- and the Jackal's speech 266
- doings of 266
- is a beast of prey 677
- is eaten by men but not women 677
- its actions and habits 677
- methods of of hunting 677
- people who eat it 677
- smells 'strongly' 677
- tastes good 677
- the odour of its flesh 677
- the preparation of its flesh 677
- the skinning of 677

magic
- an explanation of !hau-!hau 674
- and hunting charms 674
- charms 674

magic power
- and !nuin-|kui-ten who was a sorcerer or magician 458
- and more about sorcerers 494
- and possession 493
- and songs 458
- and the man who sought refuge from the rain in a cave and found a lion there 449
- of dead sorcerers or spirit–-people 493
- of some game 414
- of sorcerers 458, 493, 494
- of sorcerers or healers and the ||ken dance 530
- of the lion over the sun and the rain 449
- of the lion which can turn itself into other things 828
- of |kaggen's things 414
- or !khwa ka tiken-tiken 458
- possessed by wild cats, who turn themselves into lions to take revenge on hunters 864
- the teaching of 458

magic powers
- and ceremonies in cutting up eland 478
- and falling stars 491
- and Ssa ka Kumm 475
- avoidance behaviour relating to lions 447
- eland is a 'magic thing' 478
- gemsbok transform themselves into lions when being hunted 921
- of lions over the sun and the waterskin 447
- of sorcerers even when dead 491
- of the eland 478
- of |kaggen and the hunting of eland 476
- possed by the eland 475

magic protection
- of |kaggen for eland and hartebeest 414

magic things
- and a cloud of things that resemble flies 497
- and a dust or cloud that kills 497
- and cursing people or wishing death upon them 497
- and illness 497
- and Kki-a ||ken who fainted and got ill after throwing stones at a swallow 521
- and misfortune 497
- and Mr Orpen's picture of sorcerers 560
- and sorcerers 521, 523
- and spells 497
- and swallows 521
- and the locust bird or ||kerri 523
- disrespecting causes death or illness 521
- karosses are 497
- killing with 497
- must not be beaten on the ground 497
- possessions of sorcerers 560
- prohibitions regarding 497
- rain's things 521
- respect for 521
- respecting 497
- revenge using 497
- sorcerers 'shoot' at people with 523
- swallows are 521
- the consequences of disrespecting 497
- their misuse 497
- treatment of 521

magical expeditions
- and !nuin-|kui-ten who was a sorcerer or magician 458
- and falling stars 491
- of sorcerers 491
- of sorcerers at night 458
- the doings of sorcerers or healers and the ||ken dance 530

magistrate
- and ||kabbo's account of being caught and brought to the Breakwater 166
- and ||kabbo's account of being caught and jailed 174
- and ||kabbo's dream of lions which talked 268
- and ||kabbo's visit to Dr Stewart 176
- his sheep 174
- ||kabbo's capture and journey to Cape Town 27

maiden
- bewitches 184
- enchants 184
- fastens men with her gaze 184
- glance of 184
- looks 184
- maiden eyes 184
- new 184
- transfixes with her gaze 184
- transforms 184
- transforms men into trees 184
- what is done with a 'new' 381

maidens
- adorn springs 377
- adorn young men 378
- and rain 378
- and the Water's story 378
- paint and adorn with ||ka or 'rooi klip' 377
- paint young men 378
- protect from an angry rain 378
- protect young men from rain 377, 378
- the 'Bushgirl' 377
- the actions of 377

main
- eaten by people 757
- found at a 'waterpan' 757
- found near water 757
- is dug out by women 757
- its root is found in water 757
- the collecting of 757
- the preparation of 757

Maingard
- notes in Kora notebooks 1151, 1157
- translations in Kora notebooks 1139, 1154

Maiya
- 'kills' people 1086
- and the treatment of intoxication 1086
- can be eaten as food 1086
- eating too much of it causes intoxication 1086
- intoxicated women leave for another country and are killed there 1086
- is eaten raw 1086
- makes dogs faint, or die 1086
- plant 1086
- the behaviour of intoxicated men and women 1086
- the dangers of eating 1086
- the flesh is eaten 1086
- the husband who ate too much of it and became intoxicated 1086
- the parts that are eaten 1086
- the preparation and cooking of 1086
- the skins smell and are not eaten 1086
- the smell or odour 1086
- when ripe and unripe 1086

Makatees
- personal history of Hendrik Beren 570

Makoba
- !kun trade snake-skin with 1100
- !nanni's experiences with 1007
- -stick used to beat |xue 1045
- a Makoba man and his dog 1103
- and a snake which announces a death in the family 1100
- and death of !nanni's uncle |un'ta at their house 1041
- and story of !nanni's uncle 1041
- and Tamme's mother 985
- and Tamme's people 1103
- and the !kun treatment of thieves 1082
- and the capture of Da 1116
- and the capture of |uma 1112
- and the deaths of the members of Da's family 1116
- and the elephant trade 1007
- and the rain 1103
- are feared by the !kun 985
- exchanged |uma with a 'Boer' for a gun 1112
- further changes of |xue 1031
- gave Tamme to the Ovambo 985
- get the !kun to hunt elephants for them 1007
- give the !kun cattle in exchange for elephant tusks 1007
- give the !kun dacca 1007
- in !nanni's country 1007
- in Da's country 1115
- in Tamme's country 1103
- information about 985
- kill the Ovaherero 985
- murdered Da's parents 1116
- names of things belonging to 1019
- people in !kun country 1019
- put the children into the water 1116
- returns to his country 1103
- say that they see a rainbow and its rains 1103
- the Goba-|nua-me or 'Makoba-boils me' bird is found in their country 1084
- their 'great water' 985
- their actions 985
- their boats 985
- their houses or 'village' 985
- their interactions with the !kun 1103
- their relations with the !kun 985, 989, 1112, 1116
- their relations with the !kun of !nanni's country 1007
- they call the set of divining pieces |nu |num 1042
- they give pots to the !kun 989
- they make and trade pots 989
- trade with the !kun 1007, 1082
- vocabulary 950, 951
- what they call spirits or dreams 1020
- what they call things 950, 951
- where they live 985
- |xue and his parents and child 1045
- |xue becomes 1031

male ostrich
- comes to life again 913
- fetches his wives again 913
- gets more wives 913
- hardens himself 913
- is called a ||kabbi-ssin 913
- lives twice then really dies 913
- lives where it lived before 913
- or cock 913
- strengthens himself 913
- when shot again it really dies 913

man
- an ignorant man digs up Ssho |oa and the consequences of his actions 316
- and behaviour of his children who played inside 250
- and hunting observances 475
- and Ssa ka Kumm 475
- and the actions of |kaggen 414
- and the widow 250
- and the |kaggen 475
- bitten by a lion 13
- does not cross spoor 475
- dreams of falling 5, 24
- dying 250
- falls asleep in a tree 5, 24
- falls on a Lion 5
- falls upon the Lion 24
- grabbed by a leopard 13
- hides in a springbok skin sack 5, 24
- his !goura 184
- his body placed in the shade of a tree 13
- his death 250
- his dress 475
- his relations 250
- his speech while dying 250
- his things 184
- his wife hides him 5, 24
- his wife is blamed for accident 250
- imitates the wounded eland 475
- is helped by old men 475
- is laid in an old kaross 250
- must imitate the eland 414
- must not smell food 414
- must pass water on the eland 414
- must walk as if ill 414
- of the Early Race who was carried off by a Lion, when asleep in the field 420
- shot by another 250
- Ssho |oa's man 316
- the actions he must perform 414
- the ceremonies he performs 475
- the hut made for him 475
- transformed into tree by the glance of the new maiden 184
- urinates 475
- what he tells his wife 250
- who has shot an eland 475
- who shoots an eland 414
- why the ratel is like a man 404
- wounded by accident while hunting springbok 250
- wounded on hunting ground 250
- young 420

Mansse
- Dia!kwain's brother-in-law 508
- how he obtained the name !kau |ho or !kau ||hoan, or Stone knee 508

Mantis
- see |kaggen 310

mantis
- !kun name of 1060
- '||kabbo is a Mantis's man' 818
- a prohibition against eating it 1060
- customs relating to 1060
- eating it results in death 1060
- is not eaten 1060
- or ||gan-a 1060
- respect for 1060
- Tamme's people respect it 1060
- ||kabbo had or 'possessed' mantises 818

mantis's man
- ||kabbo is 818

markings
- and 'working', or cutting 1071
- and bloodletting 1071
- and men 1071
- and signs made when people leave a place 859
- and the arrangement of grass to show direction 859
- and women 1071
- drawn in the ground with feet 859
- made in the ground 859
- made on arrows using |kwae and tto 850
- on arrows to aid recognition and identification 850
- that point in the direction the people have gone 859
- the !kun bleed themselves 1071
- the making of cuts between the eyes 1071
- the stone used 1071

marriage
- !kun customs 1078, 1079
- 'husbands do mad things' 885
- 'the Knorhaan who married his sister' 405
- a husband who does not act nicely 885
- a man respects his wife's mother 1079
- a woman 'chased him with fire' 779
- and Anteater's laws 188, 189, 190, 191, 192
- and Day's Heart 45
- and different kinds of husbands 885
- and husbands who 'marry into our people as if they understood' 885
- and husbands who do not understand their wives 885
- and impregnation 405
- and intercourse 405
- and not speaking the mother-in-law's name 1079
- and story of Hyena 189
- and story of Jackal 190
- and story of Silver Jackal 191
- and story of Strandwolf and Aardwolf 192
- and the discourses of the Day's Heart star 256
- and the story of !kui-!kaxu or 'Pained Chest' 779
- and two Lions: pointers to the Southern Cross 185
- and widow's story 253
- and |xam genealogy 30
- animals must marry own kind 45
- how the wife's parents are spoken to 934
- Kwa-kkwara marries a girl 405
- men love and want to marry the ≠nuturu 653
- names for in–laws 924
- observances relating to 1079
- of animals 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 197, 198, 199, 256
- of Lynx and Day's Heart star 256
- of Lynx and Springbok 188
- of own kind 149
- of stars 185
- of the Stars 183
- of widow by her dead husband's next brother 1078
- of |xam 30, 779
- respect for the mother-in-law 1079
- respecting the in-laws 1079
- terms for relationships by 687, 924
- terms of address for in–laws 687
- the Anteater's laws 149, 197, 198, 199
- the Anteater, Springbok and Lynx 188, 197
- the girl of the Early Race to a Baboon 767
- the heart and the 'pained chest' 779
- the husband takes his wife to his country 1078
- the husband's country 1078
- the husband's people 1078
- the Korhaan marries his elder sister 199
- the manner of addressing the in-laws 1079
- the story of the Kwa-kkwara 405
- the taking of a wife 1078
- the treatment of the in–laws 934
- the treatment of the wife 1078
- widows and remarriage 253
- ≠nerru and her husband 885

master
- and |uma's capture 1112
- |uma and his 'Boer' masters 1112

mat
- belonging to Quagga who makes flour 564
- belonging to the Quagga woman eaten by the Baboons 558
- left by Ttai-tchuen to confuse the lioness 450
- Quagga makes a sieve from hers 564
- seive made from 558
- sieve made from 564
- the other name for the quagga 558
- Ttai-tchuen, with a lioness who had young cubs 450

mat sieve
- a thing that resembles it 771
- an illustration of 771
- for sifting 'Bushman rice' 771
- the making of 771

mats
- an ostrich bone is used for piercing 57
- and tools used by the |xam 57

meat
- 'food-animals' 698
- 'playing' with 698
- and |kaggen, Ichneumon and |kwammana go to Lion's house 210
- animals that are eaten 698
- carried by men and women 730
- cutting with a stone knife 869
- methods of carrying 730
- methods of cutting 869
- not put away for children 750
- prohibitions against playing with 698
- quagga flesh 210
- the little porcupine 730
- the rain's animals are its 740
- treatment of 750
- use of a net 730

medicinal plants
- 'working' them 331
- a description of 331
- and healing 331
- different uses for 331
- found at ≠kasin's place 331
- the digging for and collection of 331
- the names of in Dutch and |xam 331
- where they are found 331

medicine
- insects used as 331
- making of, and gender 331
- making of, and time of day 331
- plants used as 331, 794
- taken externally or internally 331
- the preparation of 331
- the vessels used for preparation of 331
- used by |xam 331

medicine men
- see Rainmaker 125

Meerkat
- 'Mierkats or Suricats' 351
- a man who beats |kaggen upon eland's horns 351
- and Anteater's laws 198
- and how the Ichneumon discovered what |kaggen did with the honey 351
- and origin of Moon 205
- and |kaggen 205
- kills |kaggen's pet eland 205
- Suricata Zenick, or Rhyzaena suricata 351
- Suricate 198
- suricate 205
- Xara or Suricate 351

meerkat
- 'mierkats, or suricats' 348
- erdmann 348
- names for 348
- suricate 348
- the Xara and the Ichneumon 348
- Xara 348

Meerkats
- actions of 94
- and creation of eland 207
- creation of the Moon and 37
- cry 94
- cry with their 'thoughts' 94
- diet of 94
- doings of 94
- fight with |kaggen 37
- fight |kaggen 207
- killed the eland 37
- people who shall not chew flesh of 94
- possessions of 94
- Suricats 207
- the Ichneumon's speech and 94
- the Suricats 94
- their things hang on kreeboom tree 207
- their things hung on Krieboom 94
- things of 94
- |kaggen and the Moon and 37
- |kaggen takes possessions of 94

men
- !kun terms of address used by 1079
- !kun, their dress 998
- a dead man has a mere spirit as well as another which is a snake 1102
- about new maidens 126
- and a dance performed by the 'Grass Bushmen' 804
- and bloodletting 1071
- and how the man being cleansed is prepared 1097
- and hunting 163
- and making medicine 331
- and new maidens 126
- and purification after shooting a person 1093
- and the !kun treatment of thieves 1082
- and the eating of jackal 16
- and the girl who made the Milky Way 285
- and the Maiya plant 1086
- and the ssauken game 856
- and what the man says while cleansing himself 1094
- behaviour of intoxicated, from eating too much of the Maiya 1086
- can only handle divining pieces 1050
- cut between the eyes 1071
- dead, become snakes 1102
- divining performed by 1050
- father of the man who has killed another blows smoke onto his son's back and chest 1098
- father squirts water on the man being cleansed 1097
- fathers and sons perform divining 1050
- fear and courage of 295
- food eaten by 163
- girls and youths must avoid the rain's things 411
- how the son-in-law must behave 1079
- how they are punished 1082
- husbands cut by wives 1071
- imitate the call of the ostrich in the |goo or ≠gebbi-gu 804
- make the |khu or 'Bushman soup spoon' 585
- man respects his wife's mother 1079
- son-in-law respects his mother-in-law's name 1079
- tasks performed by 163
- the behaviour of 295
- the husband who ate too much of the Maiya 1086
- the role of the father or father-in-law in cleansing 1097
- the role of the father, or father-in-law in the purification ceremony 1093
- the role of the father/father-in-law during purification 1098
- their digging stick has no stone 832
- their work 585
- what they eat 1071
- who run away fear greatly 295
- young 126, 411
- young men and new maidens 285

menstruation
- 'growing' 286
- and new maidens 286
- the treatment of the 'growing' girl 286

mice
- different kinds of 686
- how they make their nests 686
- names of 686
- the actions and habits of 686
- the Fieldmice 752
- the youth of the Early Race is put into a mouse skin and becomes a lion 752

Mice
- and |kaggen and the Beetle 753
- and |kaggen's dream 906
- dig holes in the riverbed 753
- Long-nosed 904, 906
- make holes 753
- seek 'Bushman rice' 753
- Striped 904, 906
- Striped Mouse who is strong 753
- that kill the Beetle 753
- the fight of the Mice and the Beetle 753
- the Lizard, the Mice and |kaggen 906
- the Long-nosed are killed by the Beetle 753
- the Mouse who married the !xwe Mouse 753
- the resurrection of the Long-nosed 753
- the Striped Mouse or Mus Pumilio or the common striped fieldmouse 753
- the Wildebeest, the Mice, the Quaggas and |kaggen 904
- their knobkerries 753
- were formerly people of the Early Race 753

midday
- 'It is the side of afternoon' 936
- 'The noon's middle it is' 936
- and greetings among the |xam 936

military
- a review of a parade 883
- band 883

milk
- and Ttai-tchuen, with a lioness who had young cubs 450
- Day's Heart and 45
- lioness 'milks' on people 450
- poisoning of the She-lynx with 45
- the Hyena's 45
- the Jackal's 45
- women pour theirs into |xue's eye 1054
- |xue as !naxane and butterflies and with people who are afraid 1054

Milky Way
- and !huin root 285
- and girl of Early Race 285
- and the new maiden who threw !huin into the sky creating stars 658
- and the wood ashes on the !huin 658
- and wood ash 285
- doings of the springbok and springbok hunting 706
- resembles the wood ashes 658
- springbok resemble 706
- the creation of 285, 658
- the name of 658
- why it is so named 658

millipedes
- names of 749

mine
- people fear it 712
- protection against the sorcerers at 712
- sorcerers live there 712
- throwing stones at 712
- tto or 'rooi klip' mine 712
- what the |xam call it 712

mirage
- and the mist, or !kh'o 498
- and the rising of the sun 498
- brings illness 498
- its rising, or 'eye' 498
- or !ho 498
- or whirlwind called the !ho 500
- what the mothers say about it 498

mist
- 'shut out the place' 741
- a song to 566, 567
- and a war 467
- and attacks on the |xam 467
- and illness 498
- and the First Bushman girl carried away in whirlwind 323
- and the mirage or !ho 498
- and the old man who cuts off his leg 567
- and the old man, the Hare and the party of Lions 566
- and the people's anger 467
- and the Rain's scent 741
- and the sun 498
- and the young woman carried off by the Rain, in the shape of a bull 741
- called !kh'o which resembles smoke 498
- called |khumm 741
- called |kumm 566, 567
- comes to the 'killing place' 567
- foretells a coming fight 467
- foretells the approach of a commando 467
- is the Rain's breath 741
- is the sun's shade 873
- made by the people's smoking blood 467
- made by the ||uha or Fox 761
- name of 566
- or haze 498
- that comes in the morning 467
- that comes to the 'killing place' 566
- that is blue 498
- the Koranna commando destroyed by the ||uha 761
- the name of 498
- the old man calls to 566, 567
- the old man's song 567
- the sun's action resembles 873
- through which the Rain comes 741
- what is done in an eclipse of the sun 873
- what is said about it 498

Mkuan
- at the Breakwater 1119
- his capture 1118
- his personal history 1118, 1119, 1120
- his physical characteristics and measurements 1118
- his prisoner number was 3416 1118
- or |kabbeten 1118
- the date of his trial 1118
- the names of his relations 1118
- the reason for his imprisonment 1118
- the |xam names of his relations 1120
- when he was brought to Breakwater 1118

Molef
- his capture 1118
- his personal history 1118
- his physical characteristics and measurements 1118
- his prisoner number was 3409 1118
- the date of his trial 1118
- the names of his relations 1118
- the reason for his imprisonment 1118
- when he was brought to Breakwater 1118

Mongoose
- and Anteater's laws 198

monkey
- -head front apron, tail, back apron of its feet worn by |xue 1056
- -skin front aprons worn by Bushmen 1056
- |xue and his son 1056
- |xue becomes one and walks on the earth 1056

monster
- and |kaggen who takes away the Tick's sheep 293
- |khwai-hemm 293
- ||khwai-hemm's speech 88
- ||khwai-hemm's speech to |kaggen and |kaggen's reply 294

months
- or 'moons' possess their names 443

Moon
- !in nanni's maternal grandfather's country the dead go into 999
- 'decayed flesh' of 37
- 'falls away' 624
- 'gently comes' 11
- 'gently goes' 37
- 'great one' 37
- 'ill stands' 37
- 'knows all stories' 66
- 'knows' things 468
- 'living comes' 11, 624
- 'living returns' 464
- 'paxwax' of 37
- 'possesses' game 468
- 'puikwax' of 37
- 'putrid flesh' of 37
- 'returning comes' 37
- 'running meets the clouds' 37
- 'slowly comes' 11
- 'smells badly' 11
- 'softly goes' 37
- 'stands' 37
- 'the devil's veldschoen' 37
- 'thinking strings' of 37
- 'understands' 66
- 'walking goes above' 11
- a prayer addressed to 464
- about 32, 468
- actions of 11, 14, 66
- actions performed during prayers to 464
- an explanation for its eclipse 301
- an insect which resembles it 469
- an insect which shares its name 469
- an ostrich feather becomes 50
- and !kun belief about death 999
- and 'snake's saliva' 822
- and a certain white substance 822
- and children 203, 303
- and collecting food 468
- and creation of death 332, 363
- and darkness 37
- and Day's Heart star's discourse 262
- and Day's Heart star's discourses 256
- and death 363, 365, 464
- and death of people 364, 365
- and eland's gall 205
- and finding food 162
- and First Bushmen 303
- and food 468
- and foretelling the getting of food 469
- and fortunes finding food 468
- and game 468
- and getting rid of the evil influence of bad dreams 465
- and his wife 1057
- and hunting 468
- and hunting porcupine 625
- and losing the game 514
- and Moon and Hare story 464
- and night 37
- and origin of death 217, 364
- and shooting game 468
- and stars 14
- and stars and flowers 517
- and stories 289
- and successful hunting 162, 514
- and Sun 216, 217
- and Sun and Hares 1107
- and the !ka !karro insect, which is called by its name 469
- and the creation of death 1107
- and the eland's gall 37, 624
- and the Hare 217, 464, 468
- and the Hare and the origin of death 114
- and the Hare and |xue 1057
- and the Meerkats 37
- and the origin of death 66, 464, 468
- and the |xam 37
- and what the mothers say 468
- and what |han≠kass'o's people say about a white substance found on bushes 822
- and |kaggen's making of the eland 624
- and |kaggen, eland and Meerkat 205
- and |xue 1057
- and ||kabbo's intended return home 289
- angering it 302
- appearance of 37
- asks the direction in which his wife has gone 875
- avoidance behaviour relating to 468
- backbone of 11, 37
- bad consequences of looking at 514
- beats the little Hare's mouth 66
- becomes 'great' 11
- becomes angry when people laugh at it 301
- becomes new 11
- belly of 37
- belongs to |kaggen 218
- blood of 37
- body parts of 37
- brings the game to life 468
- burns Hare's mouth 365
- burnt the Hare's mouth 114
- carries dead people 468
- children are clever and 'understand' 37
- children of 11, 37
- children taught not to laugh at 874
- colour of 37, 66
- condemns Hare 365
- cool 37
- creation of 50, 205, 256
- creation of the 37
- curses the Hare 464
- customs relating to 514
- dead go into 999
- death of 11, 11, 37
- decays 216, 217
- decays and grows small then comes alive again 11
- deceives 66
- description of 32
- dies 11, 216
- dies and comes again 66
- does not die 464
- doings of 11, 32, 37, 66
- eland's gall and 37
- falls down 11
- father of 37
- fears |xue 1057
- fights the Hare with a stone 114
- fights with Hare 363
- flesh smells badly 37
- footpath of 37
- foretells 468
- fresh 37
- full 11, 37
- gently goes 203
- grown-up 37
- grows 11, 37, 216
- has power of talking 218
- head of 37
- his actions when angry 303
- his children 179
- his fight with Hare 332, 364
- his fight with the Hare 464
- his great country 1057
- his little country 1057
- his message about living again 332
- his message about resurrection 114
- his message to people 363, 365
- his mother 364
- his movements 179
- his name is Bbu 303
- his neck sinew or |kuirri 203
- his neck's flesh 179
- his people do not smell when they die 1106
- his people return and only die a little 1106
- his resurrection 332
- his sinew 179
- his speech to the Hare 1106
- his stomach 179
- his two houses 1057
- his wife 179
- his wife beats and wants to kill him 1057
- his wife is ||ko'on 875
- house of 37
- how it heals the game's wounds 468
- hunger of 37
- hunting porcupine in the moonlight 625
- incantation to 14
- instructs Sun 1107
- is 'darkness's veldschoen' 262
- is a 'different thing' 32
- is a 'great thing' 468
- is a man 11, 179
- is a man who knows all places 289
- is alive 216
- is bloody or red with the game's blood 468
- is cold 32
- is created from |kaggen's shoe 218
- is cut 37
- is cut by Sun 216
- is killed by Sun 216
- is not a 'good person' if looked at 514
- is pierced 37
- is pierced by Sun 179
- is red 205
- is shoe 205
- is stabbed by Sun 216, 217
- is |kaggen's shoe 66, 205
- is |kaggen's veldskoen or shoe 37
- its 'dung' is found on bushes 822
- its actions with the wounded game 468
- its children 216
- its colour 468
- its doings 468, 624
- its instructions to the people 468
- its movements 179
- its name when a man 874
- its origins 624
- its other name is |ßkuan ttu 874
- its paxwax 216
- its sinew 216
- its size 216
- its speech 326
- its stomach 216
- its water 'cools' poison and cures the dying game 514
- its water falls on the game 514
- its waxing and waning 216
- laughs at the Hare's crying 1106
- lies in sky 37
- lies on his back in the sky 11
- light of 37
- lights the darkness 624
- lights the ground 37
- like fire 37
- listens to people's stories 289
- little 37
- lived on earth 301
- lived with the Sun 301
- lives 216
- lives again 217, 332, 363, 364, 365
- lives and dies 11, 14, 37, 179
- looking at it as it comes out 302
- looking at it is prohibited 302
- maidens lie in seclusion from the half of one moon to another 381
- makes darkness to punish people 302
- makes light 11
- makes the game lean 468
- makes the game live again 468
- Moon and Hare story 1106
- Moon and little Hare 66
- moons or months 381
- must not be called large 874
- must not be looked at 468
- neck of 37
- new 37, 66
- not to be laughed at 874
- not to be looked at, when game is shot 514
- old 37
- old father 262
- old man 301
- origin of 179, 205
- pain of 37
- parts of 37
- people fear it 514
- people speak to 162
- pierced by Sun 203
- pierced by the Sun 11
- prayer or address to 465
- prayer to 162
- prayer to the new 464
- prayer to the young 464
- predicts 468
- prohibitions regarding 468
- punishes Hare 332, 365
- red 37
- relations of 37
- resembles a 'thing which is bitter' 874
- respects |xue, who is another person 1057
- resurrection of 11, 37, 66, 365
- returns to life 114
- rises and sets 205
- round 37
- scarred 37
- seeks his wife, ||ko'on 875
- sees things that will come to pass 468
- sends the Hare to tell the people who are ill that they will live again like he does 365
- sets 37
- shines 37
- shoulder blade of 37
- shoulder top of 37
- showing respect for 874
- side of 37
- sings 203
- size of 37
- skin of burns 37
- speaks like |kaggen's other things do 218
- speaks shoe's language 66
- speaks with side of tongue 66
- speech of 66
- spoke nicely 1057
- spoor of 37, 66
- stabbed by the Sun 66
- stars are things that resemble 517
- stomach of 11, 37, 66
- strikes Hare 217
- Sun and Moon story 203
- Sun, Moon, and stars 32
- talked 301
- talks 37
- teaching about 468
- tells Hare its mother is really dead 217
- tells people they will live again 464
- that is full 216
- that is new 216
- the anger of 303
- the colour of 32, 216
- the death of 217
- the doings of 262
- the Hare alters his message 364
- the Moon and the Hare: a version at first by ≠kasin and then by Dia!kwain 363
- the Moon and the Hare: a version by Dia!kwain 364
- the Moon and the Hare: a version by ≠kasin 365
- The Moon's speech 66
- the name of 303
- the name of its wife is ||ko'on 874
- the ostrich feather becomes 624
- the people call it |ßkuan ttu 874
- the people wish to resemble it and live again 464
- the people's prayer to 464
- the place where it comes 14
- the resurrection of 217, 464, 624
- the rising 302
- the Sun kills 11
- three-quarter 37
- time of 37
- tooth of 37
- tracks his wife 875
- tries to kill |xue 1057
- vertebra of 37
- vigorous 37
- wants the game to live 468
- was a person 301
- was angry with children's laughter 301
- water of resembles liquid honey 514
- waxes and wanes 11, 14, 37, 363, 365, 464
- ways of speaking |xam 326
- what is done with a 'new' maidens 381
- what people say to it 874
- what the people say about 37
- when full 468
- when it gets angry it goes into the sky 874
- when large 874
- when large went into the sky 874
- who talks 11
- wife of 37
- won't allow the game to die 468
- wound of 37
- young 37
- |kaggen and the Moon 37
- |kaggen creates 50, 624
- |kaggen makes 37
- |kaggen's instructions to 624
- |kaggen, his wife and their things 218
- |xue as !naxane and butterflies and with people who are afraid 1054
- |xue goes to his house 1057
- |xue makes the rain that kills him 1057
- |xue resembles 1054
- ||kabbo waits for 289

moon
- !kun beliefs about 960
- a !kun prayer to the young 1040
- and death 462
- and foods eaten during its phases 1090
- and hare 1135
- and signs of death 462
- and the finding of food 1040
- and the sounding of a male |ou's horn 1043
- and the story of the man, the lizard and his wife 1043
- and the |khoro and the ≠gue-||na plants 1090
- and what happens when people die 462
- becomes the Boschvark's shoulder blade 1135
- called !ka !karrishe by women 1043
- carries the dead 462
- goes into the sky 1135
- its actions when a person dies 462
- its appearance and death 462
- its mother is the sun's child 960
- its movements 960
- its name 1043
- Karu's prayer to 1043
- lies down 462
- moon and hare Kora fable 1135, 1136
- new 960
- points out a lizard 1043
- points out bees 1043
- points out food 1043
- practices observed relating to its phases 1090
- shows the people food 1043
- stands hollow 462
- the 'little moon's |khoro' 1090
- the growth of 960
- the star is its father 960
- the sun is its mother 960
- the young moon's story 1043
- what the !kun say to it 1043
- when small 1043
- when young 1043
- young 960, 1090

moons
- and the |xam names of months 443
- or months 'possess' their names 443

morning
- 'It is the day's mouth' 936
- 'The morning's mouth it is' 936
- actions at 500, 569
- actions of cattle at 579
- and a whirlwind 499
- and destroying the sneeze or kkoroken 516
- and falling down 569
- and greetings among the |xam 936
- and sitting instead of standing at 500
- and sorcerers' doings 525
- and standing at dawn 499
- and the !ho 499
- and the !ho: a whirlwind 500
- and throwing shadows 525
- avoidance behaviour and prohibitions relating to 525
- avoidance behaviour relating to 569
- customs relating to 500, 569
- dawn 499
- doings of the early 544
- early 499, 500, 525
- early morning 569
- its doings 499, 569
- prohibitions relating to 499, 569
- shadows must not fall on other people in the early 525
- sneezing at dawn 516
- sneezing at dawn and hunting 516
- sneezing in the early morning considered unfortunate 516
- standing or sitting down at 569
- teachings about 569
- the consequences of standing at 569
- the early morning's doings 500
- the story of 569
- things done at 525
- warnings about 499
- when baboons should not be spoken with 544
- when blood is abundant 525
- when invisible sorcerers can see people 525

mosquitoes
- and the wind 536
- and |xannan |xannan and the wind 536
- are blown away by the wind 536
- getting rid of 536
- preventing 536

Mosunyan
- his capture 1118
- his personal history 1118
- his physical characteristics and measurements 1118
- his prisoner number was 33418 1118
- the date of his trial 1118
- the names of his relations 1118
- the reason for his imprisonment 1118
- when he was brought to Breakwater 1118

moth
- 'a man of lice' 480
- 'black ostrich's' 481
- burns in the fires 481
- Celœna renisigma, Walker 481
- follows the game 481
- foretells the finding of food 481
- foretells the successful killing of ostrich 481
- has lice 480
- in early times 480
- its actions 480
- its appearance 481
- knows things before people do 481
- knows when meat is coming 481
- name of 480
- ostrich's 481
- people drive it and blow it away 480
- pours lice on people 480
- resembles the ostrich 481
- teachings about 481
- the !num !num 475
- the !num-!num moth or Aloa amasis 480
- the habits and actions of 481
- the treatment of 480
- used to talk with men to deceive them 480
- wants others to also have lice 480
- was formerly a man 480
- what people say to 480
- |goro 481

mother
- the advice Dia!kwain's gave him about the tortoise 124
- the Hare's really dies 217
- the Moon and the Hare 217
- |xue and his mother and father 1038
- |xue and his parents and child 1045
- |xue's 1038, 1045

mother Hare
- death of 66
- Moon and little Hare 66
- resurrection of 66
- speech or language of 66

mother-in-law
- a man respects his wife's mother 1079
- how she addresses her son-in-law 1079

mothers
- how they protect their children against |kaggen 416
- their prohibitions with regard to the hartebeest and their children 416

moths
- and hunting 470
- and the game 470
- that burn in the fire 470
- that come to the fire at night 470
- that live with the game 470
- that resemble different types of game 470
- the gemsbok's 470
- the ostrich's 470
- the quagga's 470
- their actions foretell the killing of game 470
- their colour and appearance 470
- |goro 470

mountain
- !khwe-|na ssho-!kui's family sleeps on to escape lions 283
- and hunting look-outs 287
- and perceiving game 287
- and presentiments of things that are going to happen 287
- and story of the Lion and the Jackals 342
- and the death of the !khau 696
- Brinkkop 287
- in |han≠kass'o's country 780
- its name 506
- made by Jackal-sorceress 342
- the creation of a pass 696
- the naming of !guru |na's pass and |xe-!khwai's pass 696
- the Wind lives in, in the form of a bird 645
- where the maiden turned the youth to stone 506
- where the people once dwelt 506

Mountain Bushmen
- !kaugen !k'e 848
- or 'Berg', or 'Mountain Folk' 848
- where they live 848

mountains
- and place of rainmaking 274
- Brinkkop 274

mourning
- by her mother, of the wife killed by means of a poisoned arrow in her bed 1080

Mouse
- and Anteater's laws 198

Mowbray
- Griet at 1133
- Jan Plat at Charlton House 571
- Kora words given at 1133
- |han≠kass'o's comments on a parrot seen there 891
- ≠gerri-sse at Breakwater and later at 485

Muishond
- !koa 692
- and the two Lions 187
- asks the west wind for assistance 692
- Foulmouth 187
- his foolish actions 692
- is a man of the Early Race 692
- its decayed piece 187
- the Lion and the 187
- the little 187
- was formerly a person 692
- who ate his own flesh 692
- who cooks and eats his body which grows smaller 692

murder
- and death of people and place they go to after dying 249

museum
- Piet Lynx at 1151
- words given at 1151

music
- an instrument called the !goin-!goin 598
- and a dance 598
- and sounds 387
- given by !kweiten ta ||ken 387

musical instrument
- !goin-!goin 598
- !goura 184, 506, 511
- !kummi 408
- a woman beats a drum in a dance 598
- and dance 598
- and lightning 511
- and song 154
- and the rain 511
- beating it 598
- consequences of playing them in thunderstorms 511
- Dia!kwain played his in a thunderstorm 511
- drum called !gauru 1067
- method of playing the !goin-!goin 598
- or bow 511
- played by the youth turned to stone by the maiden 506
- the !goura 154
- the drum of the !kun called !gauru 1067
- the Lynx plays it sweetly 408
- the story of the Lynx and the Anteater 408
- used for calling bees 598
- used for finding honey 598

musical instruments
- making bow strings 308

Namaqua
- and Tamme's people 968
- and the |xam 115
- and vocabulary given by Auma 946
- dialect 946
- language of 115
- their language understood and spoken by Tamme and his family 968

Namaqualand
- !khannumup's origins 1124
- Great 1124

Namaquas
- and |uma's capture 1112
- capture |xui tatin's master 73
- their relations with the !kun 1112
- |xui tatin's story 73

name
- !huin roots are thrown by the new maiden into the sky, creating the stars 658
- !kai from the Lions' bag 929
- !khannumup's other 1125
- !kun 1066
- !kun name for grasshopper 1030
- !kun, a bird called Ngogan-a 971
- !kun, a bird called the !na !na'rishe 978
- !kun, a bird called the sauko 966
- !kun, a bird called the sho sho 952
- !kun, a bird called the ≠ne≠nebbi 965
- !kun, a drum called !gauru 1067
- !kun, a moth or butterfly called the ||noruko djo-djo 967
- !kun, for a tree 1108
- !kun, for a well 1068
- !kun, for cleansing ceremony 1096
- !kun, for the mantis 1060
- !kun, for the purification ceremony 1094
- !kun, of a bird 979
- !kun, of birds, plants and animals 1039
- !kun, of plant 1024
- !kun, of vulture 1024
- !kun, of water plants 1097
- !kun, the chameleon or ≠na≠n'arro 970
- !kwai-!kwa's other 483
- !kwarra-an's other is Doro 400
- !kweiten ta ||ken was given an orphan's name 438
- !kweiten ta ||ken's other is Rachel 438
- !nauxa's other 1125
- !yoa-ka-ttu is also called 'Bad-smelling-mouth' 888
- 'Boer' or Dutch 123
- 'water's lightning' is called ||ke-||kamminya 758
- 'white man's' 780
- a 'doctoress' called |xu-an 781
- a 'wood's thing' is !koken-tiken 782
- a beast of prey and person of the Early Race called |gwai 838
- a bird called !kain 905
- a bird called Koro-tuiten 659
- a bird called the !kwai !kwai 615
- a bird called the |kain |kain 614
- a bird called the ≠kainyatara 898
- a bird called the ≠nerru 885
- a bird called ttu ttutten 838
- a custom called !nana-an or calling to the wounded springbok 849
- a game called ssauken played by men and women 856
- a group of |xam called 'Mountain Bushmen' 911
- a kaross made of one skin is called a !kou'ssi 885
- a lizard called ||horu 931
- a lizard of the genus Agama or !khau 905, 906
- a man respects his wife's mother 1079
- a mist called |kumm 566
- a musical instrument, !kummi 408
- a note on the two Lions 926
- a poison called Boom Gift 347
- a poison made by 'Grass Bushmen' called |kai ka !gaoken 330
- a pool called !kaugen |ka |ka in the red sandhills 697
- a Rain's animal called ||khou 741
- a rainmaker called |kannu 275
- a rainmaker called |kaunu 911
- a rainmaker called ||kunn 528
- a rainmaker or sorcerer called |kaunu who drives locusts and calls them out 915
- a ritual for preventing a sneeze called kkoroken 515, 516
- a springbok–sorcerer called !guerriten-dde 803
- a substance called ||ka is painted on feather brushes 825
- a thorn, |kantsi 376
- a thorn–tree called Driedoorn, or !nabba 906
- a tree called !goa 997
- a tree called the |kuerriten |kuerriten 741
- a very old one spoken by people who died before the First Bushmen lived and the |xam name for them 88
- a waterpool called |uha 758
- about sorcerers 396
- accounting for the giving of one to a waterpit 700
- accounting for the giving of Xaa-ttin's 502
- accounting for the naming of !guru |na's pass and |xe-!khwai's pass 696
- accounting for the naming of |a!karaken's grove 726
- addressing the in-laws 1079
- an animal called ||aitje 838
- an eruptive illness affecting the throat called !hamman-xu 895
- an explanation of Dia!kwain's mother's little 479
- an explanation of Ssu-!kui-ten-tta or Snore-White-Lying's naming 428
- an insect which has the Moon's 469
- and !nanna-sse 707
- and an explanation of the eclipse of the Moon 301
- and destroying the sneeze or kkoroken 516
- and Koranna-|xam vocabulary 115
- and mode of addressing rain 815
- and preparation of the springbok's ears for dancing rattles 600
- and respecting sorcerers 436
- and sneezing is to be avoided when game is shot 515
- and stars and death 531
- and Stow's picture no. 3 of sorcerer's ||ken dance 529
- and terms of address for in-laws 1080
- and the !kain who snatched off the hair of the Ostrich's head 905
- and the !kwai !kwai, |kaggen and the children 615
- and the death of the !khau 696
- and the fatal adventure of !kwai-!kwa and his companion 483
- and the girl who made the Milky Way 285
- and the Hyena's revenge 843
- and the Jackal's speech 266
- and the Lions, the Tortoise, the little Hare and the old woman 123
- and the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- and the old woman who sends the children to throw up the sleeping Sun into sky 300
- and the preparation of feather brushes used in springbok hunting 825
- and the Quagga who was poisoned by her husband 894
- and the son of the Wind 644
- and the story of !gwa !nuntu and the Elephants 618
- and the story of the old man who makes rain 274
- and the young moon's story 1043
- and the young woman carried off by the Rain, in the shape of a bull 741
- and throwing stones at locusts 915
- and want of rain 596
- and what is done with a 'new' maiden 381
- and what the man says while cleansing himself 1094
- and |a!karaken killed by a lion 726
- and ||kabbo's dream 268
- another for |kwammana 386
- avoiding calling the Wind's 644
- avoiding playing with the !koroken !koroken's 562
- avoiding saying the baboon's 544
- avoiding saying the lion's 423, 829
- avoiding the killer's 1094
- avoiding the lion's 421
- baboons and the ≠gebbi-ggu 541
- baboons know and call a person's 550
- baboons know our names 550
- Beetle is called dju 928
- Blue Crane's bone is called !kamm 925
- butterflies and !giten 781
- called !khi and !yoa-ka-ttu who lies in it 888
- called by the people to the locust 638
- calling and asking wind–sorcerers for wind 538
- calling lion's 266
- calling of Ttanno !khauken's 436
- calling that of the Wind 644
- calling the names of sorcerers 436
- children call the lion Hair 423
- children do not say the lion's at night 829
- children not to play with Ttanno !khauken's name 436
- children taught not to play with a sorcerer's name 436
- children taught to use another name for the lion 423
- consequences of playing with the lion's 423
- Dassie's other 88
- disrespecting and playing with the lion's 421
- Doornboom 882
- Driedoorn wood used to make stick for feather brushes 825
- Driedoorn, or !nabba 882
- Dutch or 'Boer', of the star 362
- Dutch, for the sorceress !kwarra-an is Mietje 398
- Dutch, of Dia!kwain's first wife was Mietje 429
- explanation of the name Ssu-!kui-ten-tta 428
- explanation of the name which Dia!kwain's mother gave him 495
- fly hears people say the lion's name 421
- for a caterpillar 1066
- for ant larvae is 'Bushman rice' 659
- for black rain-clouds 1066
- for different kinds of rain 655
- for rainmakers is !giten 393
- for sneezing is |kamma 397
- for stars 880
- for tree 1066
- for water that has no bushes 700
- for women and men 1079
- gambro 596
- gambro or |kui 638, 642
- given by the !kun to purification ritual 1093
- given to locusts 637
- great 479
- Hart River's people 311
- how Mansse obtained the name of !kau ||hoan or Stone knee 508
- Kko-kkorro's story 394
- Koranna, of the star 362
- lion is called |kerre-|e 829
- little 479
- locusts are called ||kabba-|kha 649
- Makoba, for a tree 1108
- male ostrich is called a ||kabbi-ssin 913
- names of animals 154
- names of Dia!kwain's relations 435
- names of different types of winds 592, 593, 594, 595
- names of the Dawn's stars or aquilae 505
- names of |han≠kass'o's relations 852
- of plants used in cleansing ceremony 1096
- of !gwa !nuntu's grandchild is Ttau ho 618
- of !kwarra-an's husband and a son 398
- of 'Boers' or Dutch 646
- of 'Bushman tribes' 115
- of a 'Bushman doctor or sorcerer is !gixa 782
- of a 'handsome' person 634
- of a Bastard 646
- of a bird 629, 641, 765, 839, 886
- of a bird found in Bushmanland 673
- of a bird found in the Makoba country 1084
- of a bird is |nu'she 1085
- of a bird not eaten by people 587
- of a bird which belongs to the rain 521
- of a bird which foretells death: the Hamerkop 531
- of a bird, !gauka 1038
- of a bird, the !ke tsa'ba 973
- of a boulder 780
- of a brush; the !nabbe 672
- of a caterpillar, |khuken-|u |unu 581
- of a game, the ≠gebbi-ggu 541
- of a hunting charm 674
- of a Koranna prisoner 115
- of a little water–hole found in rock is ||kauru-opua 590
- of a man called !kou's place 786
- of a moth 475, 480
- of a moth which foretells the killing of game 470
- of a moth which foretells the killing of ostriches 481
- of a mountain 646, 780
- of a musical instrument, the !goura 154
- of a piece of jewellery worn by men and women 841
- of a place where rain is made 274
- of a plant 642
- of a plant found in |han≠kass'o's country 648
- of a plant used in cleansing 1095
- of a plant used to make poison, !gwe 635
- of a plant, |kui sse 638
- of a pool to which the !khau journeys 697
- of a rain's thing 581, 582
- of a rainmaker 394, 811
- of a rainmaker, |kannu 638, 639
- of a root eaten by the !ke tsa'ba bird 973
- of a sorceress or healer 397
- of a spider 680
- of a star in the Katkop dialect 362
- of a stone: ||hara 707
- of a thorn tree from which tinder is prepared 439
- of a thorn tree used in burial called ||'i 1114
- of a thorn–tree or bush 702
- of a tree 888
- of a tree called |ßkao 1087
- of a tree, climbed by ||xabbiten ||xabbiten to escape baboons 551
- of a water-pool belonging to Jackals 894
- of a whirlwind that harms people at dawn on the hunting–ground 499
- of a whirlwind which harms people at dawn is !ho 500
- of a white man 1125
- of an animal eaten and respected by the !kun 1070
- of an insect 652
- of an insect used in healing of children 792
- of an insect used in the mixing of arrow poison 347
- of an insect which predicts the finding of food 469
- of an insect which shares the Moon's 469
- of animals and animal-parts used in tools made by the |xam 57
- of black rain-clouds 275
- of bushes and trees used to make tools used by the |xam 57
- of bushes used to build shelters 815
- of cleansing ceremony, |koa 1095
- of cleansing food, |kui 1095
- of clouds 815
- of Dia!kwain's brother 499
- of Dia!kwain's father 502
- of Dia!kwain's relations 554
- of Dia!kwains father is Xaa-ttin 554
- of different kinds of sheep 646
- of different stars 275
- of edible plants 57, 638
- of flowers that grow at water 531
- of foodstuffs 596
- of Korannas 311
- of men's hunting is !hunn 317
- of people known by |han≠kass'o and some of his relations 915
- of people known by ||kabbo 268
- of places 538
- of places in |han≠kass'o's country 780
- of plant 1022
- of plants and fruit prepared and used in the cleansing ritual 1094
- of plants, fruit and trees used in the purification ritual 1093
- of Rain is !khwa or !khoa 852
- of red haematite used by maidens to adorn young men 377
- of rivers 266
- of root, !huin 285
- of the baboon is feared 544
- of the baboon's head 551
- of the bush settled on by locusts 657
- of the dog which stole ||kabbo's tobacco pouch 603
- of the Driedoorn tree is !nabba 726
- of the eland 624
- of the First Bushman 283
- of the First Bushmen: !khwe |na ssho !ke 300, 301
- of the First Bushmen: the !khwe |na ssho !ke 298
- of the First Bushmen: the !khwe |na ssho !kui' 297
- of the First Bushmen; the !xwe ||na ssho !kui 618
- of the heap of bones 707
- of the Leopard Tortoise is |go ka kkumm 388
- of the locust bird 915
- of the locust bird is ||kerri 523
- of the maiden's house 381
- of the Milky Way and the stars 658
- of the Moon 303
- of the moon 1043
- of the Moon's wife is ||ko'on 875
- of the mountain where the maiden turned the youth to stone 506
- of the Muishond's decayed piece of thigh is 'Foulmouth' 187
- of the north wind is !khwe a tss'u !kun sho 592
- of the owner of the dog which stole ||kabbo's tobacco pouch 603
- of the partridge is !kabbi 586
- of the place where '!kaua doro and the lion' was set 786
- of the place where the bones are placed 707
- of the place where Xaa-ttin made his chippings 554
- of the porcupine's hole 734
- of the rain's things is !khoa ka ||kerri-ssi !kau 578
- of the rainbow and |kaggen and !kwammana 632
- of the set of !kun divining pieces 1050
- of the snake 452
- of the sorcerer's dance is ||ken 529, 530
- of the sorceress who healed Dia!kwain's throat 400
- of the Springbok is !kháuko 188
- of the Sun 298
- of the swallow is !kuerri-|nan 521
- of the thorn–trees used to make tinder and kindling 882
- of the Tortoise, the Hyena's wife 843
- of the tree used for making the divining pieces 1050
- of the water tortoise is !khou 582
- of the waterpit is ||xuobbeten 700
- of the west wind 692
- of the west wind is wurri 593, 596
- of the young Lion used as a dog 283
- of the young Springbok is !khoukau 892
- of thorns 123
- of women's hunting is |kua 317
- of wood used for making vessel used in the purification ritual 1093
- of |han≠kass'o's mother 698
- of |han≠kass'o's relations 646
- of |kaggen's son is !gaunu-tsaxau 666
- of |kaggen's wife is |kauruwo 615
- of |kaunu's relations 911
- of |xam groups 115
- of |xam individuals 780
- of |xam known by |han≠kass'o 786, 911
- of |xam poison 48
- of |xam relations 115
- of |xue's father 1038, 1039
- of ||goo-ka-!kui's master and his wife 646
- of ||kabbo's place is ||gubbo 780
- other, of the Quagga woman eaten by the Baboons 558
- others for the Proteles 729
- people call the rainbow by |kwammana's 632
- plant called |kui sse is thrown into the sky by the girl to make locusts 637
- poking out of lizards is called ||noten 931
- prohibition against saying a star's man's 826
- proper 123
- purification or |koa 1093
- quagga also called 'mat' 558
- Ratel is called !khou 821
- respecting 421
- respecting and fearing that of the man who shot and killed another 1094
- respecting the lion's 423, 829
- saying the Moon's is avoided 303
- sorcerers are like lions 720
- sorcerers shoot with invisible arrows 717
- Ssu-!kui-ten-tta's Dutch name was Witbooi 428
- stick used to poke out lizards is called bbarri 931
- the !gwiten who was 'niggardly' to his wife 840
- the !hau-!hau 674
- the !k'anni, tied to the hair 841
- the !ka !karro insect, which is called by its name, and which foretells the getting of food 469
- the !ka-ka |khueten 680
- the !kuerre-!kuerre 629
- the !kwai !kwai 765
- the !kwai !kwai, |kaggen and the children 765
- the !kwana thorn tree or bush 702
- the !nu !nurussi, Brachycerus, or African ground weevil 792
- the !num-!num moth or Aloa amasis 480
- the Anteater, Springbok and Lynx 188
- the avoidance of the mother-in-law's 1079
- the bull is called xoro gwai 741
- the dzana 1087
- the east wind is called !kaua 595
- the First Bushmen or !khwe |na ss'e !k'e 376
- the Frog is called !ga 928
- the Frog's husband is !kuommain |ka ||kau 928
- the girl who says the Baboon's 767
- the girl, of the Early Race of people, who married a Baboon 767
- the giving of 479
- the giving of !kweiten ta ||ken's 438
- the Goba-|nua-me or 'Makoba-boils me' bird 1084
- the great Star !gaunu, singing named the stars 505
- the Har river 274
- the Hare's star or !nau ka |kuatti 362
- the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman 1092
- the Krieboom 551
- the Lion and the Muishond 187
- the living again of male ostriches 913
- the Lizard, the Mice and |kaggen 906
- the locust bird is called the ||kerri 916
- the locust bird is called ||kerri 657
- the locust bird or |harriten 723
- the maiden's story; the frog's story 375
- the mantis is called ||gan-a 1060
- the mist is called |khumm 741
- the moon called !ka !karrishe by women 1043
- the Moon's neck sinew is called |kuirri 203
- the mountain called Brinkkop 274
- the Muishond is called the !koa 692
- the names of the Wind 644
- the naming of the stars 658
- the north wind and the rain 592
- the occasion upon which the story of the !khau was related to |han≠kass'o by his mother 698
- the old man's song to the mist called |kumm 567
- the old man, the little Hare and the travelling Lions 566
- the Phyllomorpha paradoxa, !uhaiten-!uhaita ||go a ken or withered-leaf insect 652
- the porcupine's 'danger signal' on its tail is called !gwe 735
- the porcupine's tail openings is called |kerriten 729
- the Rain is !khoa 741
- the Ratel and the girls of the Early Race 821
- the Sak River 538
- the son-in-law respects his mother-in-law's 1079
- the song of the Agama lizard 906
- the sorceress !kwarra-an 397
- the south wind is called !khwe a tss'u ||kau !khe 594
- the story of the Lynx and the Anteater 408
- the tale of a wise person or sorceress 397
- the tiger moth caterpillar, larva of Aloa or |kuken-|u |unu 724
- the ttu ttutten 839
- the two Lions are called !gu and !haue ta ≠hou 925, 926
- the two Lions are called !haue ta ≠hou and !gu 929
- the water–spring called xhwarra 375
- the young He-Dog is called !kuin'ssi-|kauoken 894
- the young woman who disobeyed her mother and fell in with the two Lions 929
- the |go |go'ken or Chersina angulata, or angulate tortoise 843
- the |goro or ostrich's moth 481
- the |kain |kain, the girls and |kaggen 614
- the |kitten-|kitten 673
- the |no 1070
- the |u' ||ke' or Tshaka plant 1096
- the |xam call a sorcerer a !gixa 803
- the ||gani 979
- the ||kerri or locust bird and locusts 641
- the ||kuarri, eaten by the porcupine 648
- the ≠nerru 886
- the ≠xo gure bird 1089
- things which are not perceived are called kua kua ssi-kuiten 729
- thr ||kerri berries 600
- tinder called ≠kuobbo 882
- use of the terms of address, ≠khumm and |ui sau 1079
- used by the !kun 1084
- used by the !kun for a bird 1085, 1089
- used by the !kun for a poisoned arrow 1080
- used by the !kun for a snake, the ≠in-a 1101
- used by the !kun for an animal or bird 1087
- used by the !kun for purification ritual is |koa 1097
- used by the !kun for the ghost is ||gaun-a 1113
- used by the |xam for 'going astray' is ||gwi !k'u 859
- used by the |xam for a sorcerer or healer is !gixa 324
- used by the |xam for a wizard, prophet or sorcerer 118
- used by the |xam for dead sorcerers is |nu-!ke 446
- used by the |xam for magic power is !khwa ka tiken-tiken 458
- used for a healer is !giten 397
- used for a healer is !gixa 400
- used for healers is !giten 396
- used for rainmakers is !giten 394, 395
- used for the lion 283
- used for the Springbok pet 118
- water plants, or tcha 1097
- what sorcerers eat 721
- what the !kun say to the moon 1043
- what the children call the Moon to anger it as it rises 303
- what the people call an eclipse of the sun 873
- what the white men call the rain 852
- what the |xam call the rain 852
- what the |xam call the tto or 'rooi klip' mine 712
- what to call the lion 829
- when food is abundant it is !xu 880
- where the people once dwelt 506
- why !nu !numma-!kuiten is called 'White Mouth' 890
- why Dia!kwain's brother Ko-bbo received his 435
- wild dog is !gwiten 840
- wind blows when it hears |xannan |xannan's called 538
- women's things are called !kuabba 925
- words and sentences including that of a poison 48
- Xaa-ttin's accident 502
- xu gwai's other 573
- Xwerri-kau's Dutch name was Oud Jantje Leeuw Stert 424
- |han≠kass'o's step-grandmother is Ttuai-an 880
- |ka kau 587
- |kaggen calls the eland '|kwammana's shoes' 624
- |kaggen is also called ||kann-doro 925
- |kaggen makes an eland 624
- |kaggen's other 88
- |kui 1108
- |kwammana called |kua ka khumm 386
- |na ka ti calls the Wind's 644
- |u' ||ke' in food 1095
- |xam 123
- |xam call sorcerers !giten 781
- |xam names of stars 505
- |xam, for sorcerers is !giten 717, 720, 721
- |xam, of the Agama lizard 696
- |xam, of the korhaan malkop is kwa kwara 605
- |xam, of the locust bird 784
- |xue and his father 1039
- |xue and his mother and father 1038
- |xue as tchaxa 1024
- |xue becomes !naxane 1022
- |xue or Hu'-we 1091, 1092
- ||goo-ka-!kui's other names 646
- ||kabbo's wife is !kuobba-an 268
- ||kannu or ||kunnu the rainmaker dreams of rain, making it fall 811
- ||khara-|ßkam 780
- ||ua-|hain 780
- |ßkururu, Kritje, or |xabbe, Grillus Capensis 347
- ≠kainyatara's daughter is 'Yolk', or ≠kariten 898
- ≠nabbi plant 1096

names
- !gaunu is also !guonni 517
- !haken, a food resembling 'Bushman rice' 654
- !kerri 766
- !kerri berries 627
- !khannumup's family name 1124
- !khannumup's other 1124
- !ko'-g !nuin-tara's younger sister is called |xe-dde-yo'e 862
- !korro-ssin !ku or 'Pit-making Bushmen' 977
- !kouwi 766
- !kui or digging-stick stone 851
- !kuiten 757
- !kun 980, 1005, 1015, 1019, 1062, 1063
- !kun, for hyena 1028
- !kun, for the hyena 1009
- !kun, of animals 959, 1045
- !kun, of birds 1077
- !kun, of everyday things in !nanni and Tamme's country 959
- !kun, of plants 959, 1056
- !kun, of plants and trees 1075
- !kun, of plants and trees that |xue becomes 1032
- !kun, of seasons in !nanni and Tamme's country 1074
- !kun, of things that |xue becomes 1025
- !kun, of things |xue becomes 1028
- !kun, of weapons 959
- !kusse 766
- !kweintu 110
- !kwobba-an 214
- !nauxa's other 1122
- !nuanna 766
- 'Boer' 55, 110, 111, 117
- 'Grass Bushmen', or |nu'sa' 1122
- 'great' 617
- 'grown-up' 779
- 'his Bushman name' 927
- 'jackal' clouds 814
- 'little' 617
- 'moons' or months 443
- 'Mountain Folk', or 'Berg Bushmen' are !kaugen !k'e and !kaugen ss'o !k'e 848
- 'Thy Bushman name, what is it?' 488
- 'youthful' 779
- a 'Boer' farmer 572
- a barblet on an arrow called ||kuken 919
- a bird called ≠kagara 900
- a dance or game called !ku 862
- a food called !haken 862
- a grass called ||kabbeten-|kou 754
- a large grass is called 'hyena's brush' 754
- a lizard called !khau 772
- a lizard called the Tarru-ggu, or akkedis 752
- a lizard called |gi 772
- a lizard called ||horu 772
- a mountain called Brinkkop 287
- a place from where strong or poisonous snakes come is called |gi ya 851
- a rainmaker called |kaunu 914
- a rainmaker called ||kunn 777
- a returning man's 289
- a river called Tki 848
- a river called Zout River 826
- a small grass is called 'jackal's brush' 754
- a substance called ||ka is painted on the Driedoorn sticks 824
- a waterpit called|u-||a 826
- about kkuirri-ttu 670
- accounting for the giving of 683
- accounting for the giving of !kui-!kaxu's 779
- accounting for the giving of names to stars 933
- accounting for the giving of nicknames 927
- accounting for the giving of Ttuai-an's 881
- accounting for the name of ≠nabbe ta !nu or Corona Australis 319
- an edible plant called !huin 862
- an explanation of the giving of the name Stone-Earbone 617
- and !gaunu 519
- and !gaunu's song 518
- and 'Aquilae's water' 690
- and arrow-making 851
- and astronomy of the |xam 128
- and chipping no. 4 771
- and Dia!kwain's genealogy 117
- and explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1 513
- and Friedrich Hortnoop's personal history 574
- and further details of the men who hunted Lions with bones 759
- and genealogical notes 26
- and genealogies of |xam 30
- and Heron's song 85
- and how an old woman asked a chameleon for rain 355
- and how the look of the new maiden changed the Dassie and her people and their things into stars 319
- and how Xaa-ttin asked the dead magician !nuin-|kui-ten for rain 456
- and Ichneumon's discourse 272
- and personal history of prisoners 104
- and prayers to Moon 162
- and Rainmaking 125
- and respecting the Moon and its name 874
- and resurrection of the He-Ostrich 60
- and rock painting copy no. 2 801
- and sneezing 215
- and stars and flowers 517
- and tactics in springbok hunting 824
- and the apparition seen after Dia!kwain's wife's funeral 532
- and the digging out of 'Bushman rice' 662
- and the Ichneumon's speech 94
- and the reasons for the colours of the gemsbok, the hartebeest, the eland, the quagga, and the springbok 392
- and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara 862
- and the two Lions, the Lizards, the Blue Crane, the Rhebuck, and the Black Crow 772
- and the young man of the Early Race put into a mouse skin who becomes a lion 752
- and the |nu'she, the tt' e, and the wind and rain 1077
- and the ≠nuturu 653
- and widow's story 253
- and wind, weather and springbok hunting 701
- and |a-kkumm and the owl and the lion 445
- and |han≠kass'o's personal history 577
- and ||kabbo's intended return home 289
- and ||kabbo's treatment of bones 714
- and ≠kasin's adventure with a leopard 336
- Andries, or !kaogen-≠kakken 927
- Auma's other 946
- avoiding saying the Moon's name 874
- avoiding saying, of certain wild animals 1008
- Beetje 110
- Betsy 110
- bitter bulle 564
- Boer 30
- Booi 30
- Cape Dutch 111, 117
- crows and secretary birds 609
- dacca called pankwe by the Makoba and the Damaras 1007
- dacca called xana by the !kun 1007
- Damara 951
- different spellings of Dia!kwain's 'Boer' name 117
- different, for Ssho |oa 309
- digging for !haken and 'Bushman rice' 861
- Dirk or !xein, son of Dootje 774
- doings of the springbok and springbok hunting 706
- Driedoorn wood used for sticks used in making feather brushes 824
- Dutch 30, 55, 110, 125, 617, 794, 831, 912
- Dutch and |xam 338
- Dutch names 104, 437, 927
- Dutch or 'Boer', for sheep 144
- Dutch or 'Boer', for stars 366
- Els 110
- explanation of 441
- feather brushes are called !xui-!xui 824
- float on wind 289
- float to a different place 289
- for 'Bushman rice' 768
- for a language 775
- for arrows and weapons 1115
- for Canopus and Sirius 321
- for certain winds 694
- for dacca 1007
- for different foodstuffs 653
- for different groups of people 653
- for different ostrich feathers 918
- for different shadows 768
- for different springbok in the herd 253
- for houses 1015
- for in-laws 924
- for locusts at different stages of development 914
- for parts of the body and bones 630
- for parts of the body given by ≠kasin 47
- for red haematite 771
- for relationships by marriage 687
- for springboks' bones 710
- for stars 321
- for the Agama lizard 768
- for the different parts of arrows 588, 851
- for the parts of arrows 918
- for the parts of the springbok herd 647
- for the Proteles 660
- for the suricate or meercat 348
- for the |xam sewing needle 440
- for things given by Da 1115
- further changes of |xue 1031
- gambro 584, 597
- gambro or |kui 742
- gambro roots 627
- girls and youths must avoid the rain's things 411
- girls do not call the porcupine's name 411
- given by 'Bastaards' 699
- given by whites to the |xam 774
- given by |han≠kass'o 576, 630, 633, 671, 795, 836
- given by |han≠kass'o at the SA Museum 608
- given by |han≠kass'o at the South African Museum 651
- given by |kaggen 683
- given by |uma at Mowbray, May 1880 1110
- given to animals 868
- given to horns of different buck 806
- given to the Day's Heart star 256
- given to the wind 694
- go behind mountains 289
- great 441, 583
- greetings called kuanna-i 936
- Griet 30
- groups of |xam 1122
- grown-up 871
- Haard Klaas 30
- Har River 245
- Hendrick Beren's employer 570
- Hendrik Ronebout's others are ||xou-||ku'a, or Daki 489
- hyena has two names, ||hou and ||gaxa 1009
- in Dutch and |xam 30
- in notebook of genealogies 939
- in rock painting copy no. 7 806
- in the Katkop dialect 107
- in the Katkop dialect, from #kasin 113
- in ||kabbo's account of being caught and brought to the Breakwater 166
- Isaac Bastard 30
- Jacob Nein's |xam name 25, 27
- Jan Plat at Breakwater 486
- juice from the ||kao plant 851
- Klaas Rooikop 30
- Kleine Brinkkop 245
- known by the old people 443
- Koos Pleitje 30
- Koranna 107
- Koranna, for stars 366
- Latin 107
- Lion and Tortoise 62
- little 441, 489, 583
- main 757
- Makoba 950, 951
- more about |xue 1033
- name for a lazy person 773
- name for the dead is 'spirit–-people' 854
- name of a reed used to beat |gui-an 773
- name of Jackal, a coward 45
- name of the man who beat Ruyter to death 539
- name of the Rhebok when a person 772
- name of the Sun 256
- names of animals 576
- naming of the Star-people 319
- nick- 583
- notes on rock painting copy no. 3 802
- obtained from Blaitje Snell and Daoud Moos 304
- of !khannumup's country 1124
- of !khannumup's relations 1124
- of !kun 972, 974
- of !kun known to !nanni and Tamme 964
- of !kweiten ta ||ken's relations 370
- of !nanni and Tamme's relations 955, 974
- of !nanni's and Tamme's countries 1027
- of !nanni's and Tamme's grandparents 1014
- of !nanni's brothers and sisters 959
- of !nanni's close relations 972
- of !nanni's father 996
- of !nanni's grandparents 980
- of !nanni's mother and father and his grandparents 972
- of !nanni's paternal grandfather 996
- of !nanni's relations 959, 1041, 1053
- of !nanni's siblings 961
- of !nauxa's relations 1122
- of !Ora, or 'Hottentots' 1124
- of 'Boer' or Dutch farmers 773
- of 'Boers' 486
- of 'Boers' or Dutch masters 539
- of 'Bushman tribes' 26, 37
- of 'heaven's things' 108
- of 'Hottentots' 946
- of 'moons' 443
- of a bone used in making of clay pots 823
- of a caterpillar used for poison 1053
- of a few places in Bushmanland given by ||kabbo 328
- of a man killed with ||khwih 871
- of a mountain 794
- of a mountain from where rain is asked for 456
- of a plant 1015
- of a plant, !naxane 1028
- of a river 244
- of a river in Bushmanland 45
- of a river, Little Har 262
- of a thorn bush 46
- of a white man 1124
- of all things 440
- of an insects used in making of medicine 331
- of animal body parts given by |han≠kass'o 920
- of animals 107, 113, 158, 576, 608, 651, 671, 790, 794, 795, 964
- of animals and Day's Heart 45
- of animals and plants 1054
- of animals at SA Museum 107
- of animals eaten by !nanni's and Tamme's people 956
- of animals eaten by the !kun 951, 975
- of animals given at SA Museum 145, 181
- of animals given at the SA Museum 946
- of animals given by !nanni and Tamme at SA Museum 949
- of animals given by Tamme at the SA museum 1059
- of animals given by |a!kunta in the SA Museum 31
- of animals given by ≠kasin 333
- of animals in |xam 12
- of animals that live in the Orange River and kill the |xam there 513
- of animals, skins of which worn by !kun men 998
- of arrow used to shoot thieves 1082
- of arrows 661, 706
- of August and September 443
- of Auma's relations 946
- of berries, !kauru, used in making flour 564
- of berry 85
- of bird 1062
- of bird's eggs 143, 1004
- of birds and animals and the Anteater's laws 198
- of birds eaten by !nanni's and Tamme's people 956
- of birds found in Bushmanland 760
- of birds in !nanni and Tamme's country 1004
- of birds that |xue becomes 1017
- of body parts 156
- of Boers 30
- of bones 732
- of bushes used by women to build houses 681
- of celestial bodies 157
- of celestial bodies in !kun country 951
- of children 441
- of clouds 760
- of colours 836
- of colours and patterns 633
- of constellations 108, 128
- of Day's Heart stars 262
- of Dia!kwain's people's place 117
- of Dia!kwain's relations 117, 437, 441, 461, 532
- of different animals found in !kun country 975
- of different arrows 919
- of different arrows used by the !kun 1041
- of different clouds 814
- of different crows 609
- of different groups of !kun 974
- of different groups of |xam 272
- of different kinds of gum used in making of clay pots 823
- of different kinds of rain 809
- of different peoples of !kun's country 1019
- of different plants found in !kun country 975
- of different springbok in the herd 706
- of different types of crow 380
- of different winds 647, 701, 759, 760, 878
- of different |xam groups 806
- of Dutch 215
- of Dutch or 'Boer' farmers 111
- of Dutch or 'Boers' 104
- of edible plants 158, 1005
- of edible plants found in Bushmanland 756
- of edible plants found near water 757
- of farmers 30, 583
- of flowers 517, 518
- of flowers found in Bushmanland and Mowbray 743
- of food 46
- of food and plants eaten by the |xam 101
- of food eaten by lions 244
- of food eaten by the |xam 45
- of food found by women 101
- of food found in |han≠kass'o's country 597
- of foods eaten by the Early Race of Bushmen 861
- of foods eaten by the |xam when there are no springbok 662
- of foods eaten by |xam 262
- of foodstuffs 564, 654
- of foodstuffs eaten by the |xam 162, 584
- of foodstuffs fed to animals by |kaggen 392
- of Friedrich Hortnoop's relations 574
- of friends, relations and fellow prisoners 146
- of good and bad arrows 701
- of grasses found in Bushmanland 754
- of groups found in Tamme's country 968
- of groups in Hereroland 950, 951
- of groups of !kun 976, 977, 1027
- of groups of !kun that !nanni, Tamme and |uma belong to 1092
- of groups of |xam 26, 37, 111, 117, 260, 262, 371, 577, 715, 801, 848
- of groups of |xam who eat baboons 224
- of grown-ups 441
- of heavenly bodies 108
- of Hendrick Beren's relations 570
- of Hendrik Ronebout's relations 489
- of individuals known by |han≠kass'o 801
- of insects 794
- of insects found in Bushmanland 791
- of insects identified by|han≠kass'o at the SA Museum 791
- of Jacob Nein's relations 27
- of Jan Plat and Ruyter's relations 539
- of Jan Plat's place 572
- of Jan Plat's relations 486, 571
- of Jan Plat's travelling companions 572
- of kaggen's friends and relations 667
- of Kki-a-||ken's relations 522
- of kkuirri-ttu's relations 670
- of leopard 1062
- of locusts 631
- of Lynx 45
- of masters and mistresses 773
- of medicinal plants 331
- of mice in Bushmanland 686
- of millipedes 749
- of Mkuan's relations 1120
- of mountains 253
- of mountains in !nauxa's country 1122
- of ostrich eggs 222
- of people 912, 940
- of people and their places 912
- of people known by and related to |han≠kass'o 912
- of people known by |han≠kass'o 773, 871
- of people known by ||kabbo, |a!kunta and |han≠kass'o 939
- of people |uma and Da met on their travels 1112
- of peoples found in Tamme's mother's country 1018
- of peoples in !kun country 950, 951, 964, 974, 985, 1013
- of peoples in |uma's country 1110
- of peoples of Damaraland 1112
- of places 27, 104, 111, 113, 245, 253, 370, 371, 570, 583, 773, 794
- of places given by xu gwai 573
- of places in !khannumup's country 1124
- of places in Bushmanland 26, 29, 30, 117, 214, 445, 574, 577, 683, 699, 775, 778, 801, 806
- of places in Jan Plat's travels 572
- of places in the 'Grass Bushmen's' country 805
- of places, a mountain, a river 304
- of planets 128
- of plant 1062
- of plants 244, 355, 794, 964
- of plants and animals 1073
- of plants and animals eaten and avoided by the !kun 996
- of plants and animals in !kun country 1005
- of plants and animals in !nanni and Tamme's country 1000, 1008
- of plants and animals that |xue becomes 1033, 1036
- of plants and animals used in making poisons 223
- of plants and animals, given by |han≠kass'o 1127
- of plants and berries eaten by the |xam 766
- of plants and foodstuffs 198
- of plants and things that |xue becomes 1031
- of plants and trees 1019
- of plants and trees used as poison 1053
- of plants eaten as food 125
- of plants eaten by !nanni's and Tamme's people 956
- of plants eaten by the !kun 951, 975
- of plants eaten in times of drought 742
- of plants found at ≠kasin's place 331
- of plants found near water 756
- of plants in |uma's country 1110
- of plants used for making poisons 338
- of plants, foods eaten 627
- of poisonous plant, the ||kuanni 589
- of poisonous snakes 338
- of poisonous snakes and plants 851
- of poisons 338, 588, 820
- of poisons used on arrows 661
- of prisons 27
- of rain-clouds 1062
- of rain–clouds 690
- of relations of the |xam contributors 10
- of relations of |xam convicts at Breakwater Convict Station 1118
- of rivers 260
- of rivers in Bushmanland 101
- of shelters made by men 681
- of snakes 740, 771, 820
- of some of |han≠kass'o's relations 871
- of some of |uma's relations 1110
- of songs of the !kun 964
- of spirits are feared 1082
- of stars 60, 108, 128, 157, 160, 178, 182, 256, 262, 272, 320, 517, 519, 690, 878
- of stars given by !gaunu 690
- of stars given by ≠kasin and Dia!kwain 366
- of stars used by men and women 366
- of stone used to make arrowheads 588
- of stones 503, 794
- of stones used for anointing the body 711
- of stones used in making weapons 339
- of stones used to make stone knives 869
- of substances used in arrowmaking 589
- of substances used to mark arrows 850
- of Tamme's brothers 994
- of Tamme's brothers, living and dead 994
- of Tamme's grandparents 1011
- of Tamme's relations 1011, 1013
- of Tamme's relations and people in his country 968
- of the 'Boer' masters 1112
- of the 'Boer' that killed Hendrik Ronebout's father 489
- of the adopted daughter of the Lioness 835
- of the bird that eats the locust 631
- of the Blue crane 85
- of the bone and the needle 440
- of the bored stone for the digging stick 60
- of the Day's Heart stars and the Day's Heart child's mother 256
- of the Daybreak Star 182
- of the dead are feared, respected, not uttered 1082
- of the dead may be said at noon 854
- of the Dutch 486
- of the earth used to make clay pots 823
- of the groups that !nanni and Tamme belong to 1027
- of the Lion star 178
- of the Lioness grandmothers, the trees 835
- of the locust in Dutch 631
- of the Moon and his wife 874
- of the Moon when a man 874
- of the parts of the herd 706
- of the peoples in |uma's country 1110
- of the places or country of the 'Berg' or 'Mountain Bushmen' and the 'River Bed people' 775
- of the Proteles: aardwolf, |gipp 585
- of the rain's animals 740
- of the rain's things 355
- of the relations of Oud Bakkis or 'one nose' 778
- of the She-Rhinoceros' daughters 622
- of the star man is not uttered 826
- of the two Lions 17, 62, 186
- of the two Lions: pointers to the Southern Cross 185
- of the water's and the rain's things 580
- of the |xam men killed along with Kki-a-||ken 522
- of the |xam's places 699
- of things belonging to different peoples of the !kun's country 1019
- of things eaten by the !kun 956
- of things eaten in |uma's country 1110
- of things worn, nets and bags 391
- of thongs used inmkaing of feather brushes 824
- of tortoises 740
- of trees in !nanni and Tamme's country 1004
- of trees, plants, bushes used in the making of clay pots and bows 823
- of Ttono wo's relations 940
- of utensils used for eating 584
- of various foods eaten and a fungus protected by the rain 668
- of waterholes 253
- of weapons 1019
- of white men 111, 583
- of white people who speak |xam 55
- of wild animals eaten by the !kun 1063
- of wounded and unwounded springbok 800
- of |a!kunta's and |han≠kass'o's relations 939
- of |a!kunta's paternal grandfather 46
- of |gui-an's father's place 773
- of |gui-an's master and mistress and their in-laws 773
- of |gui-an's master's place 773
- of |gui-an's relations 773
- of |han≠kass'o and his relations 917
- of |han≠kass'o's grandparents 751
- of |han≠kass'o's relations 577, 617, 693, 774, 823, 881
- of |han≠kass'o's relations who eat lynx 677
- of |han≠kass'o's uncle 670
- of |kaggen 94
- of |kaggen's friends and relations 660, 682, 788
- of |kaggen's friends, relations and opponents 38
- of |kaggen's relations: his wife, son and daughter 602
- of |kaggen's things 38
- of |kaggen's three children 682
- of |kaggen's wife 208
- of |kaggen's wife the Dassie 38
- of |uma and Da's relations 1112
- of |uma's and Da's parents 1037
- of |xam 10, 25, 27, 30, 30, 38, 45, 46, 60, 104, 110, 111, 117, 146, 155, 166, 214, 215, 304, 371, 488, 715, 779, 881, 927, 1122
- of |xam and other people in |han≠kass'o's dream of a gang of prisoners 831
- of |xam and their relations 583
- of |xam at Breakwater 30
- of |xam at the Breakwater 30, 485, 486, 487
- of |xam at |han≠kass'o's place 778
- of |xam children 30
- of |xam contributors 30
- of |xam groups 223, 775, 777, 802
- of |xam groups or 'tribes' 30
- of |xam individuals 26, 777, 939
- of |xam individuals and their relations 583
- of |xam known by |han≠kass'o 778, 779
- of |xam prisoners 30, 104
- of |xam prisoners from Aliwal North at the Breakwater and their relations 1118
- of |xam relations 30, 111
- of |xam who died at the Breakwater 778
- of |xam who experienced the flood at Victoria West 812
- of |xam who went with Mr Anthing to the Cape in 1863 30
- of |xam-speaking people 55
- of |xue's second wife 1015
- of ||gabbe-Tka's relations 669
- of ||kabbo's place 699
- of ||kabbo's relations 26, 27, 104, 155, 166, 214, 215, 289, 939, 940
- of ||kunn's two children 777
- of ≠enn's relations 487
- of ≠gerri-sse's relations 485
- of ≠kasin's father, mother and their children 334
- of ≠kasin's master 111
- of ≠kasin's relations 60, 111, 334, 336
- of ≠kasin's wife 111
- Orange River's other name 513
- Oud Andries 25
- Oud Bartman 779
- Oud Lies 30
- Ovaherero 950
- pass through people 289
- people call the lion ||kuamma 759
- personal histories of |xam 583, 583
- personal history of |han≠kass'o 617
- poison called ≠ku 851
- possess their names 443
- prohibitions regarding the saying of 868
- proper 107
- puffadder is called !guken 851
- Quagga makes flour 564
- reeds rubbed with |kuai juice 851
- Saartje 30
- sieves or !yuiten 861
- sinews, or !nui 851
- Smoke's man 214
- sneezing and calling a person's name 764
- Soppi 214
- Soppie or Hendrick 927
- stars in Orion's belt named according to springbok hunting 933
- stars named by !gaunu 517
- sun, Moon and stars 160
- Suobba ||ken 214
- terms for relationships by marriage 924
- the !au or shaped rib-bone 584
- the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food 678
- the 'other' names given to animals 868
- the 'uttering' of 764
- the adhesive substance called |kwae 589
- the Altair star called ||xo hai by the |xam 320
- the avoidance of those of the dead 1082
- the barblet on an arrow is called ||kuken 918
- the calling of 583
- the calling of the names of the rain's things is avoided 411
- the Crow's story 380
- the death of !nanni's uncle 1041
- the elder daughter is !kwa !khe 622
- the Fieldmouse's name is 'Mouse' 752
- the giving of 441, 583, 617, 699
- the giving of ||gabbe-Tka's 669
- the Har river in Bushmanland 289
- the Lion and the Tortoise 186
- the Makoba 1019
- the mirage is called !ho 498
- the mist or haze which resembles smoke is called !kh'o 498
- the naming of the stars 319
- the Ovaherero 1013
- the photograph of Xu gwai reminding |han≠kass'o of !nwa !koro 912
- the Porcupine's other 610
- the proper name of the locust 631
- the Rhebok is called |ke-dde 772
- the saying of those of the dead by night avoided 854
- the She-Rhinoceros and her elder daughter's suitors 622
- the She–Lynx is called !ko'-g !nuin-tara 862
- the Shimbari 1019
- the Silver Fox is !gwiten 622
- the springbok's paxwax is called |kuerri 585
- the two Lions 178
- the two Lions are called !gu and !haue ta ≠hou 772
- the Xara and the Ichneumon 348
- the younger daughter is Driving Away or Ssuai-ssuai-||a-|uhan 622
- the |ka kue 1018
- the |kam-ssin !ku or 'Sun Bushmen' 976
- the |khu or 'Bushman soup spoon' 585
- the |nani 1013, 1018, 1019
- the ||kuain plant used to smoke ostrich feathers 824
- travel 289
- tto, or rooi klip 711
- used by different peoples for Ssho |oa 309
- used by men and women 868
- used by men or women 935
- used by the !kun for being alive and dead 1088
- used by the !kun for spirits or dreams 1020
- used by the Makoba for spirits or dreams 1020
- used by the Ovaherero for spirits or dreams 1020
- used for differerent relations 935
- used for in-laws 687
- used for relations of different genders and ages 935
- used for the different times of the day 936
- used for |kwae by the 'Boer' farmers 850
- what the !kun call the lion 1008
- white man's 486, 794, 831
- who can use them 868
- why Dia!kwain's uncle |kai kwa received his name 441
- Willem, !kui-!kaxu, !kauru-ttin 779
- wind and stars 878
- windmaking and springbok hunting 647
- Witbooi 30
- youthful 871
- |han≠kass'o 214
- |han≠kass'o or Klein Jantje 30
- |han≠kass'o's family and their genealogical information 577
- |han≠kass'o's late wife was Ssuobba-||ken or Sara 812
- |han≠kass'o's wife was Ssuobba-||ken or Sara 823
- |kaggen and !goe !kweitentu 38
- |kaggen and the Moon 37
- |kaggen and |kwammana visit the Dassie's house 610
- |kaggen and ||khwai-hemm 788
- |kaggen's other 101
- |kaggen's other is ||kanndoro 610
- |kaggen's wife is !kauruwo 610
- |kaggen's wife is |huntu or !kauruwo 788
- |kann or Jacob Nijn 30
- |kannu the rainmaker 276
- |kannu's other was |kaunu 276
- |ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen 667
- |kui roots 627
- |kuiten 584
- |kuken-kkumm 779
- |kwae and tto 850
- |kwammana, the Ichneumon and |kaggen visit the Proteles' house 660
- |uain-an 779
- |xam 26, 30, 107, 113, 125, 321, 503, 617, 710, 794, 831, 912, 1120
- |xam and Dutch 441
- |xam and Dutch names 370
- |xam for 'Bushman's letters' 287
- |xam names 104, 437, 927
- |xam terms for 'one who works badly' and 'one who works well' 823
- |xam, for Kenhardt 445
- |xam, for the Agama lizard 691
- |xam, of months 443
- |xam, of stars 108, 366
- |xam, of the Agama lizard 678
- |xam, of the puffadder 820
- |xam-speaking people 55
- |xue and his parents and child 1045
- |xue and his son 1056
- |xue and the bam-bam, and as other things 1062
- |xue as !naxane and butterflies and with people who are afraid 1054
- |xue, his father and changes 1036
- ||hara 711
- ||kabbo in the train 29
- ||kabbo's other 714
- ||kabbo's three 289
- ||kho put in arrow's mouth 851
- ||kuakken 766
- ||kuirri shredded to make poison 851
- ≠enn at Breakwater 487
- ≠enn's Dutch name was Klaas Paai 487
- ≠gerri-sse at Breakwater and later at Mowbray 485
- ≠gerri-sse's Dutch name is Jan Ronebout 485
- ≠kagara and !haunu 900

Namibia
- Damaraland 948
- dialect of the !kun or 'Ongova Bushmen' of Hereroland 948
- Hereroland 948

naming
- of animals 868
- of |han≠kass'o's step-grandmother, Ttuai-an 881

navel
- and remarks concerning copies of Bushman pictures nos. I-XXIV 578
- and the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- of the rain 578
- people strike their navels and snap their fingers when addressing the rain 452
- the Rain in the form of an eland shot by one of the Early Race 746
- the rain's 746
- the rain's navel 452

necklace
- and a snake which announces a death in the family 1100
- dressed in fat 1100
- is laid on the ground 1100
- made of reed is wound around a child's neck 793
- of reed, used to cure a child's cold 793
- that frightens away the ||hin snake 1100
- that smells strongly 1100
- the making of 793
- used in curing a child's cold 793
- women make 793
- worn by a woman 1100

needles
- European 440
- made from a springbok's foreleg-bone 440
- the making of 440
- used by the |xam 440

nest
- a description of 839
- of the ttu ttutten birds 839
- the building of 839
- the entrance of 839
- the size of 839

nests
- how different mice make theirs 686

net
- the little porcupine 730
- used to carry porcupine meat 730

nets
- 'net's eye' 860
- and a riem, or thong used to thread 860
- and bags and things worn 391
- black men use them to collect locusts 860
- how black men make them 860
- used by the people living north of the Orange River 860

new maiden
- 'Bushman maidens' 507
- 'worked the Rain nicely' 741
- a ceremony performed by maidens so that their father's dogs should hunt well 507
- a maiden who snaps her fingers at the rain causes lightning 510
- about 360
- about new maidens 360
- and 'killing' rain 452
- and buchu 452
- and creation of stars 319
- and First Bushman girl 319
- and her father's hunting dog 507
- and men 506
- and menstruation 767
- and mist 323
- and rain 360
- and the actions of rain 452, 452
- and the eating of game 507
- and the hunting-ground 452
- and the Lion star 164
- and the Rain 323
- and the rain 509, 510
- and the spring 360
- and the water's !kabbe 509
- and the waterpit 509
- and the young man who was changed into stone 506
- and transformation 506
- and water–pit 360
- and why ostrich-bones have no marrow 482
- and ≠nabbe ta !nu 319
- angers the Water 360
- angry rain and angry maidens 509
- avoidance behaviour of 482
- becomes a frog 323, 375
- becomes a snake 452
- becomes dust 452
- becoming 452
- bewitches 164
- bewitches and turns the bad dog's heart 507
- burns buchu 741
- caring for 482
- carried away in whirlwind 323
- causes bad weather 509, 510
- causes her people to get put in the waterpit 509
- causes lightning 509
- causes the rain's anger 452
- ceremonies and rituals relating to 482
- changes Dassie, her people, and their things into stars 319
- chews meat and knee dirt together 507
- cleansing with rain-liquid 452
- climbs the |kuerriten |kuerriten tree 741
- customs and rituals surrounding her 286
- customs relating to 506
- customs relating to treatment of 360
- does not walk about 506
- drinks and eats moderately 360
- eats meat the dog has caught 507
- falls into water 323
- feeds the dog her saliva 507
- food eaten by 482
- harms people with her actions 452
- has the rain's magic power 452
- her 'illness' 741
- her actions 482
- her actions and behaviour 452
- her actions and hunting ceremonies 507
- her actions before eating flesh 507
- her actions when angry 658
- her behaviour 452
- her behaviour and the people's fortunes 510
- her breasts 767
- her brother becomes the Porcupine 452
- her confinement 482
- her curse 452
- her escape from the Rain 741
- her hut 767
- her look transfixes, transforms the Star-people 319
- her people are carried away by whirlwind 375
- her people become frogs 323
- her powers 452, 506
- her saliva 507
- her scent 452
- her seclusion 286
- her seclusion in a hut 482
- her smell 360
- her speech and the actions of the rain 452
- her things are transformed 323
- her transformation 360
- her treatment 286
- her work 482
- how she eats and drinks 360
- how she takes the dog's heart from the game 507
- is carried off by the Rain in the shape of a bull 741
- is courted by the Rain 741
- is feared and avoided 506
- is in house of illness 375
- is looked after by old women 506
- is punished by the Water 360
- is taken up in the whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- is transformed by the Rain 323
- kills and eats Water's children 375
- lies down 452
- lies in her house 'of illness' 741
- lies secluded in her hut 506
- look of 164
- makes a 'killing' rain 510
- may not eat certain things 482
- may not handle meat 482
- newly menstruating girl 164
- of the Early Race 452, 506
- of the Early Race of people 741
- of the First Bushmen 319
- old women feed and care for her 482
- on hunting ground 323
- pats the dog 507
- prohibitions involving her 286
- prohibitions regarding 360
- prohibitions regarding behaviour 510
- prohibitions relating to 452, 482, 506, 507
- protects her people 452
- protects the dog 507
- rides the Rain 741
- rubs away the scent of the ||khou 741
- rubs buchu on the Rain 741
- rubs herself with buchu 741
- rubs the Rain-bull 741
- smells like ||khou 741
- smells the Rain's scent 741
- snaps her fingers and angers the rain 509
- speaks angrily, scolds and curses 509
- speaks to the dog 507
- spits into the dog's mouth 507
- sucks dirt from her knee 507
- the angry rain resembles her 509
- the consequences of her 'looks' or gaze 506
- the education of 452
- the First Bushman girl carried away by a whirlwind 323
- the frog's story 375
- the girl lies down to become 767
- the girl who snaps her fingers at her parents and the rain 509
- the girl, of the Early Race of people, who married a Baboon 767
- the maiden who changed the young man into stone 506
- the maiden's story 375
- the menstruating girl 286
- the new girl 482
- the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- the new maiden who is carried off by the Rain and becomes a frog 360
- the new young girl 360
- the preparation of her food 482
- the rain imitates her 510
- the Rain is attracted to her scent 741
- the rain kills with lightning because it feels she does not protect the people 452
- the rain resembles 452
- the rain shoots like she does 510
- the seclusion of 360
- the things she thinks about 452
- the time when she can work with things 482
- the treatment of 319, 452, 482, 506
- the treatment of the 'growing' girl 286
- the young woman 741
- throws buchu at the Rain's forehead 741
- transfixes 164, 506
- transforms 164
- understands the Rain 741
- went into well 360
- what happens if a maiden is spoken to against her wishes 509
- what happens when she scolds people 452
- who angers the rain 510
- who ate the ostrich marrow without the knowledge of her people 482
- who cares for by her 360
- who created the Milky Way 658
- who created the stars 658
- who deceived her mother 360
- who disobeyed her mother 452
- who snaps her fingers at the rain 510
- who threw !huin into the sky 658
- works the game 482

new maidens
- 'Bushgirls' 126
- 'fix immoveable' 126
- 'maid' 126
- a 'new' maiden 381
- about 126, 126
- actions of 126
- and game 285
- and game and hunting 325
- and hunting 285
- and hunting-ground 126
- and Moon 381
- and older women 126
- and springs 126
- and stars and death 531
- and the actions of the angry rain 531
- and the new maiden of the Early Race who was changed into a frog by the angry Rain 126
- and the Rain 126
- and the rain 531
- and the young man of the Early Race who was transfixed 126
- and young men 126, 285
- are carried away by the rain 531
- are secluded in a hut 325
- are transformed by the rain 531
- are Water's wives 531
- become flowers 531
- become stars 531
- becoming 126
- behaviour of 126
- care for 126
- caring for 381
- cause illness 126
- customs and rituals surrounding her 285
- customs relating to 126
- customs relating to becoming 381
- doings of 126
- girls 126, 325
- grow at the water's edge 531
- harm others 126
- harm people 381
- killed by lightning 531
- laughter of 126
- lie in the house 126
- look of 126
- looking at 126
- maiden 126
- must fear the rain 531
- old women care for them 381
- prohibitions regarding 126, 325, 531
- prohibitions relating to 381
- rest 381
- seclusion of 126
- stand in water 531
- teaching of 126
- the doings of 381
- the effect of their looks or gaze 325
- the girl who made Milky Way 285
- the house of 381
- the look or gaze of 381
- the name of their house 381
- the Rain carries away 126
- the seclusion of 381
- the treatment of 325, 381
- their acts of disobedience 126
- their house of illness 381
- their seclusion in a hut 285
- their treatment 285
- transfix 126
- transfix and transform people 325
- transform people 126
- treatment of 126
- what is done with 381
- what they eat and are fed 381
- what they must avoid 381
- young girls 126

new year
- and Ichneumon's discourse 272
- and stars 272
- and winter 272
- in winter 272

Ngogan-a
- a !kun song about 971
- bird 971
- goes away 971
- habits of 971

nicknames
- the giving of 927

night
- !nanni's mother feared it 990
- 'darkness's back's insides' 936
- 'in the middle of the night's back' 729
- 'It is darkness' 936
- 'It is earliness' 936
- 'night-darkness' when the moon doesn't shine 729
- a grown-up person 'does not sleep' 62
- a grown-up person 'knows the night' 62
- a grown-up person 'knows the things that walk at night' 62
- and dust signals 800
- and greetings among the |xam 936
- and life after death 854
- and lions 283
- and people returning home 285
- and the girl who made the Milky Way 285
- children do not say the lion's name at 829
- darkness 'sat' 990
- darkness comes out 285
- hunting porcupine at 729
- lion eats food of darkness 283
- Tamme's mother does not fear it 990
- the !kwana thorn tree or bush and hunting porcupine at 702
- the darkness is the lion's shadow 829
- the doings of lions at 829
- the lion or 'thing whose head's darkness it is' 829
- the shadow of the lion's head at night 829
- the sun's darkness resembles 800
- when children must not say the name of the dead 854
- when hunters 'listen, seeking' 729
- when people dream of the dead if they say their name 854
- when the porcupine goes out during winter 729

noise
- accounting for the roar of the lion 77
- leopards and jackals 28
- Lion and Field Mouse 77
- made by a jackal 28
- made by animals 28
- of the Jackal howling 28
- of the Jackal whining with' uplifted tongue' 28

north wind
- blows underneath clouds 592
- brings rain-clouds 592
- is called !khwe a tss'u !kun sho 592
- is strong 592
- is the rain's wind 592
- rainmaking and 591

nose
- 'Bushman witchdoctor' or doctor 175
- a man who has his 175
- and a speech made by the sorceress !kwarra-an 397
- and falling stars 491
- and healing 175
- and how |nu-!ke or magicians who have died still possess power 446
- and more about sorcerers 494
- and sorcerers or healers 175
- nosebleeds and healing 397
- of a healer 397
- of sorcerers who know things 491
- piercing of 193
- sorcerers possess theirs 446
- sorcerers use their jackal's nose to find out things 494
- the great Bushman doctress and sorceress Ttanno !khauken had hers 436
- the tale of a wise person or sorceress 397

nosebleed
- the girl's 614
- the |kain |kain, the girls and |kaggen 614

noses
- and the story of the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- sorcerers possess their 452

observances
- of the !kun 1076
- respecting the eland 1076

old
- !kun attitudes towards 1072
- 'we do not throw away our old man' 1072
- and the Lions, the Tortoise, the little Hare and the old woman 123
- and the old rain-sorcerer whose thong breaks 395
- caring for 1072
- customs relating to 150
- geriatricide 123, 150
- house of 87
- left in her hut 87
- lies in her house 87
- look after the children in the hut 1072
- song of 87
- taken by the Hyena 87
- the aged 150, 1072
- the old woman left alone in her hut 123
- the treatment of 1072
- the |xam treatment of the aged 123
- their responsibilities 1072
- treatment of 150
- treatment of the aged 87
- treatment of the old rainmaker 395
- woman's song 87

old man
- and his escape from the Lions 566
- and the little Hare and the travelling Lions 566
- calls the mist 566
- who cut off his leg and hops away from the Lions 566
- who ran on one leg 566

old men
- 'screaming' about the rain 815
- address the rain 811
- address the rain so it will fall gently 811
- and their wives 815
- ask for a gentle rain 811
- must build shelters for their houses from the rain 815
- rain-sorcerers 811
- rainmakers 811
- the name of one who dreams of rain 811
- their dreams of rain 811
- their mode of addressing the rain 815
- who dream of an angry rain 811

old people
- eat a fungus called !gu !gu 668
- know the names of the 'moons' or months 443
- teach children about ostrich eggshells and snakes 842
- who understand 842

old woman
- 'At what place did you grow up?' 727
- and the Anteater's laws 200
- and the hyena 150, 151, 195, 200
- and what people eat and wear 200
- and |kua ka khumm 386
- deceives the Lion 123
- flesh of is decayed 123
- her house 386
- her personal history 727
- her place 727
- her relations 727
- her song 87, 150, 151
- hip 123
- is cunning 386
- left alone in hut 123
- of Early Race 300, 386
- of First Bushmen 300
- of the Early Race 123
- the Hare understands her speech 123
- the Lions, the Tortoise, the little Hare and the old woman 123
- treatment of 123
- who asked chameleon for rain 355
- who lives on a pan 386
- who sends the children to throw up the sleeping Sun into sky 300

old women
- 'snore' the wounds caused by the sorcerer's arrows 717
- about new maidens 126
- and new maidens 126
- and the young man who was changed into stone, by the glance of a new maiden 506
- and the young woman carried off by the Rain, in the shape of a bull 741
- as mothers 126
- burn horns to appease the Rain 741
- care for new maidens 126, 381
- look after the new maiden 506
- making of the house and 126
- order new maidens 126
- teach new maidens 126
- what is done with a 'new' maidens 381

omen
- and the death of sorcerers 493
- bad and sneezing 516
- crying of the wind is an evil 535
- of death 535
- owl believed to foretell the coming of the lion 827
- sneezing and misfortune hunting 516
- stars fall as 493

omens
- !koroken !koroken brings bad news 562
- !koroken !koroken knows evil 562
- !koroken !koroken knows things 562
- !koroken !koroken knows what happens far away 562
- !koroken !koroken tells people things 562
- !koroken !koroken's call 562
- and a bird called the !koroken !koroken or the telephonus 562
- and Dia!kwain's dream of the death of his father 461
- and the actions of game, springbok 461
- dreams foretell things 461
- dust as 461
- of death 461
- rain as 461
- wind as 461

Omuherero
- further changes of |xue 1031
- |xue and the ostriches 1028
- |xue becomes 1028, 1031, 1036
- |xue, his father and changes 1036

Orange River
- and Stow's picture no. 1 513
- and the animals that live therein that kill |xam 513
- its other name 513
- its water 513
- the black people who live on its north side 860

origin
- and Moon and Hare story 464, 464
- and |kaggen's creation of the Moon 624
- feather which becomes the Moon 624
- of death 114, 217, 363, 364, 365, 464, 464
- of death and the Moon and the Hare 332
- of Moon 205
- of the harelip 114, 332
- of the Moon 624
- of the stars and the Milky Way 658
- the Moon and Hare 217
- the Moon and the Hare and the origin of death 114
- the Moon and the Hare: a version at first by ≠kasin and then by Dia!kwain 363
- the Moon and the Hare: a version by Dia!kwain 364
- the Moon and the Hare: a version by ≠kasin 365
- the new maiden who threw !huin into the sky 658
- |kaggen makes an eland 624

Orlam
- all came out of one hole 1147

ornament
- a description of 841
- jewellery 841
- the !k'anni, worn by men and women 841

ornaments
- or jewellery worn by Day's Heart star's wife 256
- the making of 257
- worn by women 257

Orpen's picture
- a description of 560
- a discussion of 560
- of magical doings 560
- of sorcerers 560
- of sorcery 560

orphans
- 'being an orphan is a light thing', 'a great thing it is' 413
- and other people who are 'different' 413
- and the teaching of 'not a little story', 'a great story' 413
- and their relations 413
- in the event of becoming 413
- must 'seeking feed ourselves' 413
- people drive them away 413
- the 'orphan state' 413
- the treatment of 413

ostrich
- 'foot's scent' of 46
- a man carries it away to his home 15
- a moth which foretells the killing of 470
- and a beating of the flesh which tells the |xam things 287
- and an incantation to the Moon and stars 14
- and explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1 513
- and finding its eggs 481
- and Ichneumon's discourse 269
- and its moth, the |goro 481
- and Ostrich which is different 269
- and Ostrich which talks 269
- and presentiments of things that are going to happen 287
- and seasons 269
- and tapping 287
- and the new maiden who ate ostrich marrow without the knowledge of her people 482
- and |kaggen and !kaken-!kaka-!k'aui 269
- and ||xabbitten ||xabbitten's story 504
- avoidance behaviour relating to the eating of 504
- children may not eat certain parts of 504
- Dia!kwain's father's drawings on –skin 473
- different types of 269
- doings of 287
- drinking ostrich eggs 269
- females call 899
- house of 46
- hunting of 269, 287
- hunting, preparation and eating of 163
- is a bird that doesn't talk 269
- its bone is used for piercing mats and baskets 57
- its call 899
- its call imitated in the |goo or ≠gebbi-gu 804
- its feather becomes the Moon 50
- its feather of thrown in sky 50
- its marrow 482
- its moth 470
- its other name 868
- its speech 899
- its thigh-bones formerly had marrow 482
- its tongue does not allow it to click 899
- name of its place 50
- ostrich-louse 287
- predictions about finding 481
- reason why it does not click 899
- skin 473
- spoor of 46
- tactics in hunting 919
- the consequences of eating forbidden parts of 504
- the cooking of 15
- the doings of 269
- the eating of 15, 504
- the eating of certain parts is forbidden 504
- the eating of marrow is prohibited for new maidens 482
- the hunting of 481
- the hyena and the lion and 46
- the hyena drinks eggs of 46
- the hyena feeds its flesh to its children 233
- the jackal picks flesh from its backbone 233
- the names of different 269
- the nature and habits of 287
- the nature and habits of real 269
- the wind–sorceress |xannan |xannan resembles one 538
- the |goro moth foretells the killing of 481
- their arrows have barblets, or ||kuken 919
- their feathers used in making ||kuken or arrow–barblets 919
- when it was one of the Early Race 899
- when the Ostrich was human 899
- why its bones have no marrow 482
- |kaggen and the creation of the Moon 50
- |kaggen creates the Moon from its feather 50
- |xue becomes, and other things 1025

Ostrich
- !kaken-!kaka-!k'aui 221
- !kuken !kakka !ani 38
- 'which is different' 38
- -wife 45
- advice concerning eating its lungs 406
- and Anteater's laws 198
- and fight of ≠gebbi-ggu 406
- and Lion 406
- and real ostriches 221
- and the !kain bird 905
- and the Hyena 60
- becomes strong 60
- behaviour of 45, 45
- call of 60
- calls for wives 60
- children of 60
- Day's Heart and 45
- diet of 45
- doings of 45
- doings of ostrich 60
- eggs of 88
- feather becomes 66
- feather of 60
- feet of 60
- fights Lion 406
- fights the Hyena 60
- flesh of 45
- habits of 45
- habits of ostrich 60
- He-Ostrich 66
- her daughter does not live inside a shell and is a person 898
- her daughter is 'Yolk', or ≠kariten 898
- her song to ≠kainyatara's companions 898
- house of 45
- hunting of 45
- hunting ostrich 60
- its contest with Lion 406
- its eggs 221
- its fight with the Lion over the ≠gebbi-ggu 541
- its hair 905
- its head-skin 905
- its lungs 406
- its lungs must be swallowed whole 406
- its roar 406
- its throat and chest 406
- its voice 406
- male 66
- marries 60
- protects eggs 60
- resurrection of 66
- resurrection of the He-Ostrich 60
- scratches the house 60
- spoor of 45
- the !kain covets its head-hair 905
- the !kain who snatched off the hair of the Ostrich's head, and put it on his own 905
- the appearance of her daughter, 'Yolk' 898
- the Lion is jealous of 406
- the Lions and the Ostriches 406
- the monster ||khwai-hemm's speech and 88
- the Moon and the little Hare and 66
- the She-Ostrich 60
- the toi 905
- the women applaud and praise its voice 406
- veldskoen of 60
- was dead 60
- was formerly a person 541, 905
- was formerly a person and not a 'food's thing 406
- which does not talk 38
- which is real 38
- who carries ≠kainyatara on her bosom 898
- who deceives, catches and gives ≠kainyatara to her daughter 898
- who is different 221
- who is magic 221
- who talks 221
- why it became an animal 541
- why the ≠gebbi-ggu left it 541
- wives of 60
- |kaggen and !goe !kweitentu 38
- |kaggen and !kaken-!kaka-!k'aui 221
- |kaggen hunts for eggs of 38
- ≠kainyatara and 898
- ≠kainyatara's companions throw sticks at her 898

ostrich breastbone
- and !nanna-sse 707
- and the treatment of bones 733
- bones placed in 707
- dish made from, for the porcupine's bones 733
- dish made of 707

ostrich eggs
- !kotta-kkoe's brother drinks them in soup 884
- and !kotta-kkoe, his brother and Korannas 884
- collected by !kotta-kkoe and his brother 884
- collecting 159
- cooking 159
- drinking them using a gemsbok tail brush 884
- eating 46, 159
- fall out of !kotta-kkoe's torn stomach 884
- finding 46, 222
- hunting for 221
- hyena and the lion and 46
- hyenas eat 46
- implements for drinking 221
- implements used for collecting and drinking 269
- implements used for drinking 222
- make a '!yok !yok' noise in !kotta-kkoe's stomach 884
- making soup from 884
- methods of drinking 221, 222, 269
- of !kaken-!kaka-!k'aui 269
- of real ostrich 269
- parts eaten of 46
- people 'seeking go' 884
- preparing 159
- shell of thrown away 46
- stick to |kaggen 221, 269
- stood visible in !kotta-kkoe's stomach 884
- swallowed whole by !kotta-kkoe 884
- |xam methods of drinking 46

Ostrich eggs
- female lays 60
- membrane of 60
- resurrection of the He-Ostrich and 60
- shade for 60
- shell of 60
- skin of is bone 60
- yolk of 60

ostrich eggshell
- |kuken-|u |unu's 722

ostrich eggshells
- are carried fastened onto the back 844
- are stopped up with grass 844
- are used to fetch water 844
- should be stopped up with grass 842
- sound if left open 842
- the wind makes them sound 842
- what old people teach children about 842
- when left open attract snakes 842

ostrich feather
- and |kaggen's creation of the Moon 624
- becomes the Moon 50
- which becomes the Moon 624
- |kaggen creates the Moon from 50
- |kaggen makes an eland 624

Ostrich feather
- becomes an Ostrich 60
- bloody 60
- blown into the sky 60
- resurrection of the He-Ostrich and 60

ostrich feather brush
- and hunting springbok, which follows rain 815
- and mode of addressing rain 815
- springbok fear 815
- used for 'beating the game' 815
- used for driving springbok 815

ostrich feathers
- and Ichneumon's discourse 272
- and seasons 272
- and tactics in springbok hunting 824
- and the making of arrows 919
- and the making of arrows and ||kuken or barblets 918
- and the preparation of feather brushes used in springbok hunting 825
- and tobacco 272
- are bound with sinew onto the arrow-shaft 919
- are cut and divided 919
- bartering 222
- bartering of, with white men 272
- brushes called !xui-!xui 824
- names for black and white 918
- old and new 272
- the 'wing-feather root' is used to make ||kuken 918
- the preparation and making of 824
- the smoking of, using a springbok skin 825
- the use of the Driedoorn stick 824
- the ||kuain plant is used for smoking 824
- used in making feather brushes used to drive springbok 824
- wing-feather roots are used to make ||kuken, or barblets to catch on the animal's flesh 919

ostriches
- -sorcerers 442
- and bartering 222
- and death 913
- and Dia!kwain's relations 442
- and Flat Bushmen 272
- and flowers 272
- and game-sorcerers 442
- and Ichneumon's discourse 272
- and resurrection 913
- and seasons 272
- and spirit-people 442
- and |xam 222
- bartering their feathers 272
- Dia!kwain's mother asks for 442
- Dia!kwain's uncle |uherre's power over 442
- different names and kinds of 222
- different names and types of 442
- drinking their eggs 272
- eating their fat 222
- in chippings made by Dia!kwain's father 554
- lean and fat 442
- making soup from 222
- meat from 222
- sorcerer's power over 442
- the appearance of 272
- the bewitching of 442
- the cooking, preparation and eating of 272
- the diet of 272
- the different types and names of 272
- the hens really die 913
- the hunting of 222, 272
- the males live again 913
- the nature and habits of 222, 272, 442
- the poisoning of 272
- the successful and unsuccessful hunting of 442
- their body parts 222
- their eggs 222, 442
- their feathers 222
- their flesh 222
- their houses or nests 222
- their nests 442
- their spoor 222
- which do not act nicely 442

Oud Bakkis
- 'one nose' 778
- accounting for his name 778
- his personal history 778
- the names of his relations 778

Oud Dorntje
- and 'tiger' 165
- hunts a leopard 165
- |kerri 165

Ovaherero
- and Tamme's people 968
- and the darkness 990
- and |uma's capture 1112
- and |xue 1036
- killed by the Makoba 985
- Tamme's experiences of 986
- their ground, or country 986
- their language understood and spoken by Tamme and his family 968
- vocabulary 950
- what they call spirits or dreams 1020
- what they call things 950
- when their oxen disappeared and the lion killed their cattle 990
- |uma in their country 1112
- |xue and his son 1056
- |xue makes and carries in a bag 1056
- |xue, his father and changes 1036

Ovambo
- and Tamme 985
- and Tamme's people 968
- gave Tamme to white men 985
- Tamme's experiences of 986
- the Makoba gave them Tamme 985
- their ground, or country 986
- their language understood and spoken by Tamme and his family 968

owl
- 'snoring out' of, by the 'Bushman doctor', sorcerer or !gixa 782
- and beasts of prey 431
- and lions 445
- and the black crow 431
- and the sun 445
- behaves like the lion 445
- calls the lion 431
- flies in front of the approaching lion 827
- is 'sneezed' out 782
- is a 'harm's thing' 782
- is believed to foretell the coming of the lion 827
- is chased away with fire 827
- its actions 636
- its actions at sunset 445
- its call 636
- its conduct warns of the approach of the lion 445
- its nature and habits 431, 445, 636
- knows if a lion comes 431
- must be feared 431
- the doctor makes the sound of 782
- the noise it makes 636
- wants the lion to catch the people in their sleep 431
- warns of the approach of lions 431
- what it says 636
- what |han≠kass'o's grandfather, Tsatsi, told him about 827

ox
- -head and |xue 1075
- more about |xue 1075

oxen
- |han≠kass'o's uncle kkuirri-ttu and the missing 670

page
- blank, in Bleek's Book XXIII 84
- contents page for Book XXIV 91
- of untranslated script written by Lloyd in Bleek's Book XXIV 92
- title for Mantis and Moon 69
- title for Moon and little Hare 65
- title page for Bleek's Book XVIII 72
- title page for Book XXIII 83

pages
- blank 51
- blank, in Bleek's Book X 53
- blank, in Bleek's Book XIV 61, 63
- blank, in Bleek's Book XIX 78
- blank, in Bleek's Book XV 67
- blank, in Bleek's Book XVIII 75
- blank, in Bleek's Book XXIV 95, 98, 100, 103
- blank, in Bleek's Book XXV 112

painting
- a copy of a rock painting 802, 806
- adornment 377
- and adornment 771
- and Dia!kwain's father's drawings 473
- and the habits of the hunting leopard 513
- and the Water's story 378
- anointing 711
- as protection from rain 377, 378
- by girls of the water's things with tto 737
- by maidens 377, 378
- Dia!kwain's explanation of 513, 527
- explanation of 529
- explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1 513
- in rooi klip, or red haematite 473
- methods of 771
- no. 2 of the rock paintings copied by Col. Durnfold in the Drakensberg 801
- no. 3 of the rock paintings copied by Col. Durnfold in the Drakensberg 802
- no. 8 of the rock paintings copied by Col. Durnfold in the Drakensberg 809
- no. 9 of the rock paintings copied by Col. Durnfold in the Drakensberg 810
- notes on no.'s 5-7 of the rock paintings copied by Col. Durnfold in the Drakensberg 806
- of 'Har River Bushmen' 806
- of 'Mountain Bushmen' 806
- of a being with a 'human-looking body' 809
- of a being with an 'animal-looking body' 809
- of a cloud 809
- of black men, or 'Kafirs' 806
- of dots on the forehead 771
- of game 806
- of groups of |xam 806
- of men's backs, women's cheeks and karosses 377
- of ornaments 806
- of sorcerer's ||ken dance 529
- of the body 711
- of the hunting of gemsbok 527
- of the rain and a rain-bull 809
- of young men 378
- of zebra–striped patterns 377
- of |xam groups 801, 802
- of |xam who are fighting 802
- of |xam who ask for tobacco 802
- of |xam who fear white men 802
- of |xam who seem foolish 802
- patterns 377
- picturing black men, or 'Kafirs' 810
- picturing figures, lynx and ostrich 513
- preparation of substances for 473
- preparation of substances used for 711
- rain changes people into frogs 737
- rock 513, 527, 529
- Stow's picture no. 2 527
- Stow's picture no. 3 529
- the hands and fingers used for 771
- the head with ||hara 711
- the stones used for 711
- to resemble the hunting leopard 771
- with tto 711, 771
- with ||hara and tto 767
- with ||ka or 'rooi klip' 377
- ` 711
- |han≠kass'o's explanation of 801, 806, 809, 810
- |han≠kass'o's explanation of no. 3 802

paintings
- at Grey Library 578
- copies of Bushman pictures nos. I-XXIV collected by Mr H.C. Schunke 578
- explanations of 578
- Mr Orpen's picture of sorcerers 560
- of a dance 578
- of animals 578, 578
- of people addressing the rain 578
- of rain-sorcerers 578
- of rainmakers 578
- of sorcerers 578
- Orpen's copies of Bushman 560
- |han≠kass'o's remarks concerning 578

parade
- and cannons 883
- and the 'great white man' 883
- and the people who played 883
- and the people who were black 883
- and the people who were red 883
- and the people with white caps 883
- at the Cape Town parade-ground 883
- in which 'they stood still, stood in rows' 883
- military 883
- of British soldiers 883
- the composition of the civilian crowd 883
- |han≠kass'o's review of 883

parents
- Da's 1115
- how |uma was taken from his 1112
- names of |uma's and Da's 1037
- |xue and his father 1039
- |xue's slap and beat him 1039

parents-in-law
- how son's-in-law talk to them 934
- the father-in-law 934
- the mother-in-law 934
- the treatment of 934
- what sons-in-law say to them 934
- what |han–kass'o says about 934

parrot
- a bird which sounds like a man as it can make the lateral click 891
- |han≠kass'o's comments on one at Mowbray 891

Partridge
- and Anteater's story 373
- and Anteater, Lynx and Springbok 373
- informs Anteater 373
- is the Anteater's friend, or mate 892
- tells the Anteater that her daughter has run away 892
- the Anteater, the young Springbok, the Lynx and 892

partridge
- !kabbi 586
- a description of 586
- grown-up 586
- is eaten by people 586
- its call imitated by Jan Plat's aunt Natta in the ≠gebbi-ggu 561
- its nature and habits 586
- the appearance of 586
- where it is found 586
- young 586

path
- and death 219
- of the First Bushmen 219
- the dead walk along it 219
- to great hole 219

paxwax
- 'panwax' 37
- 'puikwax' 37
- creation of the Moon and 37
- the Moon's 37
- |kaggen and the Moon and 37

people
- accounting for the doings of 256
- all things were once 763
- and Anteater's laws 200
- and Day's Heart star's discourses 256
- beasts of prey were once 763
- Flat Bushmen 256
- hunt 200
- make fire 200
- names for different groups of 653
- nature and habits of 200
- of the Early Race 763
- people who dwell among others 283
- people who dwell in solitude 283
- the Lions and the Ostriches when they were people 406
- the nature and habits of real 293
- what they eat and wear 200
- who are afraid 1054
- |kaggen takes away the Tick's sheep 293
- |xue and his parents and child 1045
- |xue as !naxane and butterflies and with people who are afraid 1054
- |xue makes many 1045

people who are different
- and ||kabbo's dream 268

peoples
- !nanni and Tamme's experiences with different 974
- descriptions and names of different 974
- different 1018, 1019
- different, in !kun country 1020
- found in !kun country 1013
- found in Tamme's mother's country 1018
- in !kun country 968
- in !nanni and Tamme's country 1019
- in Tamme's country 968
- in |uma's country 1110
- living in !kun country 974
- names of 1110
- of !nanni and Tamme's country 974, 1029
- of Damaraland 1013
- of the !kun's country 1029
- seen by Tamme and his family 968
- songs and customs of different 974
- the dress worn by different 974
- the Hai-||umm 1029
- the languages spoken by different 974
- the Makoba 1019
- the Namaqua 968
- the Ovaherero 968, 1013
- the Ovambo 968
- the Shimbari 1019
- the |ka kue 1018
- the |nani 1013, 1018, 1019
- what Makoba and Ovaherero call spirits or dreams 1020
- white men 968

personal history
- !kwarra-an's husband ≠gerri-sse and a son were shot by a Dutch man 398
- !kweiten ta ||ken's 370
- !kweiten ta ||ken's father 383
- !kweiten ta ||ken's relations were 'killed by sorcery' 438
- !nanni and his family gather and prepare poisons 1053
- !nanni and his people's experiences trading with the Makoba 1007
- !nanni and Tamme's 964
- !nanni and Tamme's experiences 959
- !nanni and Tamme's family trees 955
- !nanni's 972
- !nanni's experiences with the trance dance 1001
- !nanni's father and brother and the trance dance 1001
- !nauxa's relations 1122
- !xen or Dirk and the steenbok 799
- 'Oh old woman! At what place did you grow up?' 727
- a story of rainmaking told to ||kabbo by a rainmaker called |kannu 275
- about !nanni and Tamme's parents 959
- about a man whom |han≠kass'o knew, who possessed 'leanness' or kko in 868
- about Dia!kwain's relations 437
- about the sorceress !kwarra-an 398
- an address to Sirius and Canopus 880
- an aunt killed by elephants 982
- an explanation of the name which Dia!kwains mother gave him 495
- an occasion when Karu told !nanni about |xue 1047
- and genealogical notes 26
- and genealogies of |xam 30
- and notebook of genealogies 939
- and the death of |kannu the rainmaker 276
- and the features, topography and places of his country 780
- and the game once tame: why it grew wild 490
- and the Koranna who brought guns 762
- and the names of people |han≠kass'o knows 912
- and the sorceress who snored Dia!kwain's throat 400
- and what the stars say 877
- and ||kabbo's dream of lions which talked 268
- and ||kabbo's intended return home to Bushmanland 289
- black men poisoned Dia!kwain's aunt 400
- Da's capture and the death of his parents 1116
- death and burial of !nanni's little brother 999
- death of Kki-a-||ken and three other |xam 522
- Dia!kwain and his grandfather, !xugen-ddi 490
- Dia!kwain and his relations 450
- Dia!kwain is healed as a boy 397
- Dia!kwain played the bow in a thunderstorm 511
- Dia!kwain's 433
- Dia!kwain's aunt, Ttanno !khauken the sorceress 433
- Dia!kwain's brother Ko-bbo ate Ttanno !khauken's pet springbok 433
- Dia!kwain's brother Ko-boken and the !ho 499
- Dia!kwain's brothers and sisters 437
- Dia!kwain's cousin Ttai tchuen and the lioness 450
- Dia!kwain's explanation of his mother's little name 479
- Dia!kwain's fight with the 'Kafir' who strangled his throat 400
- Dia!kwain's grandfather asks |xannan |xannan for wind 536
- Dia!kwain's relatives 'killed with' sorcery 435
- Dia!kwain's sister |a-kkumm and the lion 445
- Dia!kwain's uncle |uherre's power over ostriches 442
- genealogical information concerning the family of |han≠kass'o 577
- Griesbaart and the lion 46
- groups of |xam 371
- Hendrik Ronebout's father killed by a 'Boer' 489
- how Mansse obtained the name of !kau ||hoan or Stone knee 508
- how Tamme was taken by the Makoba and given to the Ovambo 985
- how Ttono wo who was killed by a rhinoceros 940
- how |han≠kass'o's wife, Ssuobba-||ken, learned to make clay pots 823
- Jacob Nein and the leopard 25
- Jan Plat at Breakwater 486
- Jan Plat leaves Calvinia with Dia!kwain 572
- Jan Plat's aunt Natta sang the ≠gebbi-ggu 561
- Karu is injured while out gathering poison 1053
- Mkuan at the Breakwater Convict Station 1119
- names of !nanni's and Tamme's countries 1027
- names of !nanni's and Tamme's grandparents 1014
- names of friends, relations and fellow prisoners 146
- names of places 371
- names of the groups that !nanni and Tamme belong to 1027
- names of |xam 371, 715
- of !khannumup 1124
- of !kweiten ta ||ken and her husband ≠kasin 371
- of !kweiten ta ||ken's sister, |a khumm 385
- of !nanni and his grandparents 980
- of !nanni and Tamme 959, 974
- of !nanni's mother who feared the night 990
- of !nauxa 1122
- of !nauxa and !khannumup 1125
- of !nuin-|kui-ten who was a sorcerer or magician 458
- of a !gixa or sorcerer called |kaunu, known by |han≠kass'o 911
- of Adam Kleinhardt 2
- of an old woman 727
- of Auma 946
- of Beetje, daughter of !kweintu 110
- of Blaitje Snell and Daoud Moos 304
- of Da's 1115
- of Dia!kwain 429, 572
- of Dia!kwain and his relations 117, 400, 436, 441, 442, 445, 502, 532, 538, 554
- of Dia!kwain and the naming of his brother 435
- of Dia!kwain's aunt the sorceress Ttanno !khauken 436
- of Dia!kwain's cousin, Kki-a-||ken 522
- of Dia!kwain's father Xaa-ttin 459, 460
- of Dia!kwain's father, Xaa-ttin, who was taught magic by the sorcerer !nuin-|kui-ten 458
- of different |xam 715
- of Dirk or !xein, son of Dootje 774
- of four |xam convicts at Breakwater, 17 April 1880 1118
- of Friedrich Hortnoop 572, 574
- of Hendrik Beren 570
- of Hendrik Ronebout 489
- of Jacob Nein 25, 27
- of Jan Plat 486, 572
- of Jan Plat and his brother, Ruyter 539
- of Jan Plat and his relations 561
- of Jan Plat, given at Mowbray 571
- of Kki-a-||ken who threw stones at swallows 522
- of Mkuan 1119
- of Mkuan or |kabbeten 1118
- of Molef 1118
- of Mosunyan 1118
- of Oud Bakkis or 'one nose' 778
- of Oud Stoffel who cut his foot on quartz 796
- of people known by |han≠kass'o 773
- of people known by ||kabbo, |a!kunta and |han≠kass'o 939
- of Snore-White-Lying or Ssu-!kui-ten-tta 429
- of sorceress !kwarra-an 397
- of Tamme 986
- of Tamme's mother who does not fear the night 990
- of the Lynx family of 'Hottentots' 2024
- of the peoples in |han≠kass'o's country 762
- of Tsatsi and |han≠kass'o 916
- of Ttono wo and his relations 940
- of various |xam 583
- of Xwerri-kau, attacked by a lion 424
- of |a!kunta 139
- of |gui-an or Dootje 773
- of |han≠kass'o 577, 617, 773, 778, 781, 911
- of |han≠kass'o and his maternal grandfather, Tsatsi 745
- of |han≠kass'o and his relations 751, 780
- of |han≠kass'o's maternal grandfather, Tsatsi 917
- of |han≠kass'o's uncle, kkuirri-ttu 670
- of |kannu and the 'Rain's man' 276
- of |kerri or Oud Dorntje who catches a leopard 165
- of |nu'xa or Hans 1118
- of |uma and Da 1037, 1112
- of |xam 30, 488
- of |xam at the Breakwater 30
- of |xam contributors 30
- of |xam individuals 939
- of |xam prisoners at the Breakwater Convict Station 104
- of |xannan |xannan, the wind sorceress 538
- of ||gabbe-Tka 669
- of ||kabbo 27, 104, 155, 248, 276
- of ||kabbo and his relations 289, 290, 940
- of ||kabbo, |a!kunta and |han≠kass'o and their relations 939
- of ≠enn 487
- of ≠gerri-sse 485
- of ≠girri-sse 568, 568
- of ≠kasin 111, 335, 336
- Snore-White-Lying or Ssu-!kui-ten-tta died at the Breakwater Convict Station 428
- Tamme and his father 995
- Tamme, his family and the people of their country 968
- the advice Dia!kwain's mother gave him about the tortoise 124
- the apparition seen after Dia!kwain's wife's funeral 532
- the Bushman doctress and sorceress Ttanno !khauken 433
- the chippings made by Dia!kwain's father Xaa-ttin before the time of the 'Boers' 554
- the death of !nanni's uncle 1041
- the death of Dia!kwain's wife was foretold by the game 429
- the death of Tamme's brother and cousin 984
- the death of the sorcerer !nuin-|kui-ten 459
- the death of |a!kunta's grandmother 148
- the drawings made by Dia!kwain's father 473
- the drought during which |han≠kass'o's grandparents almost died 751
- the fatal adventure of !kwai-!kwa and his companion 483
- the fight between !nanni's uncle and grandfather 1041
- the giving of !kweiten ta ||ken's name 438
- the giving of Dia!kwain's father's name 502
- the giving of Dia!kwain's name 495
- the giving of Dia!kwain's uncle |kai kwa 's name 441
- the names of !kweiten ta ||ken's relations 370
- the names of !nanni's siblings 961
- the names of his father and paternal grandfather 996
- the names of Mkuan's relations 1120
- the names of some of !nanni's relations 1041
- the names of some of |han≠kass'o's relations 693, 852
- the names of some of |uma's relations 1110
- the names of Tamme's brothers 994
- the names of Tamme's grandparents 1011
- the names of |han≠kass'o's relations 617, 823
- the names of |uma and Da's parents 1037
- the names of ≠kasin's relations 334
- the naming of Dia!kwain's brother-in-law, Mansse 508
- the naming of Snore-White-Lying or Ssu-!kui-ten-tta 428
- the naming of |han≠kass'o's step-grandmother, Ttuai-an 881
- the occasion on which the story 'The girl of the Early Race who killed the children of the Rain' was related to |han≠kass'o 750
- the occasion upon which the story of the !khau was related to him by his mother |xabbi-an 698
- the peoples found in Tamme's mother's country 1018
- the peoples in |uma's country 1110
- the photograph of Xu gwai reminding |han≠kass'o of !nwa !koro 912
- the tale of a wise person or sorceress 397
- the treatment of Dia!kwain's family 495
- what |han≠kass'o's grandfather Tsatsi told him about !nu !numma-!kuiten 890
- what !nanni and Tamme were told and say about |xue 1014
- what !nanni's father told him to eat and avoid 996
- what happened when Dia!kwain played the !goura in a thunderstorm 511
- what |han≠kass'o's Tsatsi's told him about the stars 877
- what ≠kasin does not eat 357
- why Dia!kwain's brother Ko-bbo received his name 435
- Xaa-ttin's accident 502
- Xaa-ttin's song about the dead sorcerer !nuin-|kui-ten and the broken string 460
- Xurri ko killed by a lion 383
- Xwerri-kau's story 424
- | a khumm called by a lion 385
- |a!kunta and his wife 142
- |a!kunta's 146
- |a!kunta's relations at Breakwater Convict Station 139
- |han≠kass'o 's father-in-law, ||kabbo's, treatment of bones 714
- |han≠kass'o 's grandfather Tsatsi's treatment of bones 713
- |han≠kass'o and ||hoaken !khe were told by Tsatsi not to throw stones at locusts 915
- |han≠kass'o gives the names of and details about some people he has known 871
- |han≠kass'o listens to the stars sound 877
- |han≠kass'o was healed or 'snored' by the 'doctoress', |xu-an 781
- |han≠kass'o's 750, 774
- |han≠kass'o's comments on a parrot seen at Mowbray 891
- |han≠kass'o's father-in-law ||kabbo's place is ||gubbo 780
- |han≠kass'o's grandfather Tsatsi ordered him not to throw stones at the locust birds 916
- |han≠kass'o's grandfather Tsatsi's address to the rain 852
- |han≠kass'o's late wife, Ssuobba-||ken, and the flood at Victoria West 812
- |han≠kass'o's pet leveret is killed 698
- |han≠kass'o's review of a parade 883
- |han≠kass'o's step-grandmother, Ttuai-an, calls out to the stars 880
- |kannu was ||kabbo's 'person' and foster father 276
- |uma and the ghost 1113
- |uma at Mowbray, May 1880 1110
- |uma's 1113
- |uma's and Da's journey to the Cape 1112
- |xam relations with others 371
- |xannan |xannan the wind-sorceress 536
- |xui tatin and the dog 74
- |xui tatin's story 73
- ||kabbo in the train 29
- ||kabbo's 26, 29, 146, 166
- ||kabbo's account of being caught and brought to the Breakwater 166
- ||kabbo's account of being caught and jailed 174
- ||kabbo's adventure with a lion 172
- ||kabbo's capture 27
- ||kabbo's maternal grandmother was a !gixa 324
- ||kabbo's place and the doings of the sorcerers there 430
- ||kabbo's visit to Dr Stewart 176
- ||kabbo, his wife and his hunting for food 163
- ||kabbo, the 'Mantis's man' 818
- ||xabbiten ||xabbiten and the baboons 551
- ≠enn at Breakwater 487
- ≠gerri-sse at Breakwater and later at Mowbray 485
- ≠girri-sse at Breakwater Convict Station 568
- ≠kasin shoots a hyena 337
- ≠kasin's 334, 337
- ≠kasin's adventure with a leopard 336
- ≠kasin's father and brother and the lion 335
- ≠kasin's hunting adventures 349

perspiration
- and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara 862
- from the She-Hyena's armpits 862
- Koro-tuiten anoints |kaggen with his 659
- the son of |kaggen, the Baboons, and |kaggen 666
- used to poison !ko'-g !nuin-tara, the She-Lynx 862
- |kaggen and Koro-tuiten 659
- |kaggen anoints his son's eye with his 666

pet
- and another version of what |kaggen did with honey 352
- and avoiding 'playing' with meat 698
- and how the Ichneumon discovered what |kaggen did with the honey 351
- how an Elephant steals a young Springbok from |kaggen 118
- leveret or hare 698
- Lynx is Anteater's 'heart's child' 408
- springbok belonging to the Bushman doctress and sorceress Ttanno !khauken 433
- the killing of |han≠kass'o's 698
- the story of the Lynx and the Anteater 408
- |kaggen makes an eland 624
- |kaggen's eland 351, 352, 624
- |kaggen's springbok 118

pet springbok
- the Springbok's kid, who was carried off by the Elephants 369
- |kaggen's 369

Philip
- or Auma at the Grey library 945

photograph
- of Xu gwai reminds |han≠kass'o of !nwa !koro 912

piercing
- and appearance 193
- by females 193
- by males 193
- by the |xam 18
- considered 'handsome' 193
- of adult men and women 193
- of arm 193
- of body 18
- of ear 18, 193
- of nose 193

Piet Lynx
- at the museum 1151
- family of 1134
- paternal grandfather 1135, 1136, 1137, 1139, 1157
- words given by 1159
- words given by Piet Lynx 1151
- words given to Isabella Lloyd 1159
- words given with Sela and |han–kass'o 1134

pipe
- and tools used by the |xam 57
- from kid's bone 57

pit
- and the burial of the little elephant 997
- and the elephants 991
- game- 991
- the digging of 997

Pit-making Bushmen
- a group of !kun 977
- or !korro-ssin !ku 977
- song of 977

place
- !kweiten ta ||ken's father's 370
- 'a man of the place he is, he knows the water' 859
- and arrow-making 851
- and Dia!kwain's dream of the death of his father 461
- and information obtained from Blaitje Snell and Daoud Moos 304
- and rain-making 393
- and signs made on leaving a place 859
- and sneezing 215
- and the east wind 595
- and the names of !kweiten ta ||ken's relations 370
- and the north wind 592
- and the personal history of Jan Plat 572
- and the snakes there 851
- and the south wind 594
- and the story of |kuken-|u |unu 722
- and the west wind 593
- and what Xaa-ttin used to sing 460
- and widow's story 253
- and |han≠kass'o's family and their genealogical information 577
- and ||kabbo's dream of rain 214
- and ||kabbo's personal history 215
- and ≠enn at Breakwater 487
- at the water 859
- Beaufort West 215
- Brinkkop 214
- broken string has left Xaa-ttin's 460
- called !kann 554
- Cape Town 304
- flood at Victoria West 812
- insects found there 331
- Kareebergen 304
- Kleine Witt Kop 253
- Little Brinkkop 253
- Little Swartkop 214
- name of Jan Plat's 572
- names of 215, 583
- names of places 577
- names of places in Dia!kwain's travels 572
- names of places in Jan Plat's travels 572
- of a man called !kou 786
- of death 722
- of the great Bushman doctress and sorceress Ttanno !khauken 436
- of the Ostrich 50
- people travel to a 'different' after death 722
- personal histories of |xam 583
- poisons found at ≠kasin's 338
- sorcerers change into birds and jackals at ||kabbo's 430
- stones found there used to make weapons 339
- Stormberg 215
- Stuurmansfontein 304
- Stuurmansfontein in the Kareebergen 96
- that is bad, strong or |gi ya 851
- that is new or different 859
- the 'killing place' 393
- the Breakwater Convict Station 583
- the medicinal plants found there 331
- the rain's place 393
- the scene for '!kaua doro and the lion' 786
- the Steinpits 370
- the widow's family's 250
- the wind's 592, 593, 594, 595
- Thierfontein 304
- Victoria West 215, 812
- Victoria West and the darkness's rain that flooded there 813
- when people travel away from 859
- where animals used to drink 554
- where Dia!kwain lived, worked 461
- where its serpents are strong 851
- where people go after dying 249
- where snake poisons are found 851
- where the rain must fall 393
- where there is a water pool 859
- where things die fast or slow 851
- where Xaa-ttin made his chippings 554
- widow's people's 253
- |han≠kass'o's 577
- |kaggen and the Moon 50
- ||kabbo's 166, 214
- ||kabbo's account of being caught and brought to the Breakwater 166
- ≠enn 's father's 487
- ≠kasin's 331, 339

places
- 'Bushlice' 805
- 'Katkop's ground' 117
- accounting for the name of 805
- and Friedrich Hortnoop 574
- and genealogical notes 26
- and Oud Bakkis or 'one nose' 778
- and personal history of prisoners 104
- and praying for rain 456
- and rainmaking 456
- and rock painting copy no. 2 801
- and |han≠kass'o's personal history and genealogy 577
- and ||kabbo's capture and journey to Cape Town 27
- Beaufort 27
- Beaufort West 110
- Blaauwpits 699
- Borste Doorns 574
- Brandvlei 574
- Brinkkop 30, 445, 456
- Bushman's 30
- Bushmanland 794
- called Kortpens or Tkou 801
- called ||ka-ttu 699
- Calvinia 30, 111
- Cape Town 27, 110
- description of 30
- description of ||kabbo's 699
- Dia!kwain's 538
- Dia!kwain's people's 117, 445
- Frasersburg 110
- Free State 570
- Friedrich Hortnoop's 574
- Griqua Stadt 570
- Groot Namaqualand 55
- Groot Rivier 30
- Har River 245
- Harrison Krantz, Harris Krantz 778
- Hartloof Kloof 780
- in Bushmanland 26, 29, 30, 104, 111, 117, 683, 699, 780, 801, 805, 806, 871
- in |han≠kass'o's country 780
- Kammak-sak 805
- Katkop 117
- Kenhardt 26, 104, 794, 801, 806
- Kenhardt or !kau-|nunu 445
- Kleine Brinkkop 245
- Namaqualand 574
- names of 27, 29, 30, 110, 111, 117, 538, 574, 577
- names of a few in Bushmanland given by ||kabbo 328
- names of in Bushmanland 445
- names of in the Katkop dialect, from #kasin 113
- Nieuwepoort 111
- of different groups of |xam 806
- of the 'Grass Bushmen' 805
- of the different groups of |xam 801
- of the |xam 699
- of various people known by |han≠kass'o 871
- Old Bastaard's pits, or mole's pit pan 780
- Ondertste Doorns 574
- Orange River 30
- Oud Bastard's 30
- Oud Jantje's 30
- personal history of Hendrik Beren 570
- prisons 27
- Rietfontein 30
- Rooiberg 794
- Strondbergen 30
- Swellendam 570
- the 'Bastaards' name for 699
- the 'Bitterpits' 29
- the Breakwater convict station 27
- the giving of names to 699
- the name of 780, 801
- the name of |gui-an's father's 773
- the name of ||kabbo's is ||gubbo 780
- the names of 26, 805, 806
- the Sak River 538
- the white man's name for 780
- Victoria 27
- Whitklip 30
- Zaakrivier 117
- Zak River 574
- Zwartkop 30
- |gui-an's master's was Klerksfontein 773
- |han≠kass'o's place 778
- |kaggen gives names to them 683
- |khu !humm 577
- |koro-tten 805
- |xam-speaking people 55
- |xannay |xannay's 538
- ||gubo 699
- ||kabbo's 26, 29, 30, 699
- |ßku-ko 577
- ≠kasin's 30, 111

planets
- and |xam names of stars 128
- names of 128
- |xam names of 128

plant
- !huin, where the Day's Heart star buries and hides the Day's Heart child 862
- !kun name of 1047
- !kun name of a tree 1108
- !kun names of 1095
- !naxane 1047
- !naxane and tree !naxane 1022
- a root called the djon eaten by the !ke tsa'ba bird 973
- about sorcerers 396
- an ignorant man digs up Ssho |oa and the consequences of his actions 316
- and Heron's song 85
- and Karu on |xue 1047
- and tactics in springbok hunting 824
- and the adhesive substance called |kwae used in arrowmaking 589
- and the making of hunting charms 312
- and the smoking of ostrich feathers to make brushes for springbok hunting 824
- and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara 862
- and the story of the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- and the young woman carried off by the Rain, in the shape of a bull 741
- and where Ssho |oa is found 312
- baboon's Ssho |oa used as charm against illness 553
- buchu 396, 716
- buchu and the rain 452
- buchu used by the 'Bushman doctor or !gixa in 'snoring' or healing ritual 782
- buchu used to work the Rain 741
- buchu, protects against the rain 900
- called !gwe 635
- called the Maiya 1086
- called |kui sse 637
- called ||kuain 824
- digging for, using a springbok's horn 824
- eaten by porcupines 648
- eaten during times of drought 742
- found in |han≠kass'o's country 648
- gambro is an irritant 642
- gambro's medicinal uses 642
- gambro, or |kui 642
- how women fear the new Ssho |oa 313
- ill effects of eating gambro 642
- ill–effects of gambro 742
- Krieboom berry 85
- Makoba name for |kui tree 1108
- medicinal 312, 313, 335, 396
- name of 589, 1024
- names of 1022
- poisonous 589, 635
- poisonous to people 648
- rain protects frogs 742
- Ssho |oa 312, 313, 314, 316, 549, 553
- Ssho |oa tells baboons things 549
- Ssho |oa used to heal ≠kasin's father's lion bites 335
- tchaxa 1024
- that can kill people 642
- that intoxicates 312, 742, 1086
- that is dangerous 1086
- that is edible 1086
- that kills 742
- the !kun name of 1086
- the !kwana thorn tree or bush 702
- the girl who made locusts 637
- the making of the fire with, for its smoke 824
- the ||kuanni 589
- the ||kuarri 648
- used for making poison 635
- used in a ritual performed for successful hunting after the death of a companion 716
- used in purification, or |koa 1095
- used to smoke arrows 716
- what man says to the Ssho |oa so it may know him 314
- |kui sse hair thrown into the sky 637
- |kui tree 1108
- |u' ||ke' 1095
- |u' ||ke' in food 1095
- |u' ||ke' intoxicates people 1095
- |xue and the ostriches 1028
- |xue as tchaxa 1024
- |xue becomes !naxane 1022, 1028
- ≠kagara and !haunu 900

plants
- !kerri 766
- !kerri berries 627
- !kouwi 766
- !kun name of 1062
- !kun names for 1090
- !kun names of 964, 1005, 1031, 1032, 1033, 1036, 1039, 1053, 1054, 1056, 1073, 1075
- !kusse 766
- !kwai bush 244
- !nabbe 57
- !naxane 1028, 1031, 1033, 1039, 1054, 1075
- !nuanna 766
- 'water food' 1097
- a !gua tree 1039, 1075
- a description of 757
- a grass called go o 1032
- a palm tree 1075
- a shao tree 1031
- and bushes and the rain 355
- and flowers 1066
- and habits of animals 272
- and how an old woman asked a chameleon for rain 355, 355
- and Ichneumon's discourse 272
- and rain 355
- and Rainmaking 125
- and seasons 272
- and the making of clay pots 823
- and the moon 1090
- and the rain in !kun country 1066
- and tools used by the |xam 57
- and trees 1019
- and trees eaten by animals and Anteater's laws 198
- and trees used for making poisons by the !kun 1053
- and trees, eaten by birds 1004
- and ||kum'm or rain-clouds 1066
- bobo 1056
- buchu and the rain 411
- called !kuiten 757
- called main 757
- descriptions of 794
- descriptions of various found in !kun country 964
- dui 1031
- Dutch names of 125
- eaten !nanni and Tamme's country 1000
- eaten and avoided by the !kun 996
- eaten as food 125, 158
- eaten by !kun men 956
- eaten by !nanni's and Tamme's people 956
- eaten by people 757
- eaten by peoples of Damaraland 951
- eaten by the !kun 951, 956, 975, 1008
- eaten in summer and winter 766
- eaten in times of hunger 627
- eating 1096
- edible 57, 355, 627, 756, 766, 794, 964, 1005, 1008, 1019
- edible root 757
- flowers 517
- found in !nanni and Tamme's country 1005
- found in !nanni's and Tamme's country 1019
- found in Bushmanland 756, 794
- found in |han≠kass'o's country 794
- found in ||kabbo's country 757
- found near water 756, 757
- fruit trees 1005, 1008
- further changes of |xue 1031
- gambro roots 627
- girls and youths must avoid the rain's things 411
- gum used in making pots, from Doornboom, or !khou trees 823
- his wife cries on the ground 1032
- in !nanni and Tamme's country 1004, 1008
- in |uma's country 1110
- made into compound 794
- medicinal 309, 331
- more about |xue 1033
- name of water plants 1097
- names and descriptions of, given by |han≠kass'o 1127
- names of 57, 244, 331, 951, 996, 1008, 1019, 1110
- names of given by !nanni and Tamme 1000
- names of roots and berries 627
- names of some eaten as food 200
- names of used by different peoples 309
- palm 1054
- parts of 355
- reeds are rubbed with |kuai juice 851
- sai bush 244
- shana 1039, 1062, 1075
- shao 1056
- Ssho |oa 309, 315
- stars and flowers 517
- Taaibosch, used to make bows 823
- that are harmful if eaten at the wrong time of the day 1096
- that are poisonous 964, 1096
- that are rain's things 355
- that intoxicate 1096
- that kill people 1096
- that kills 315
- that |xue becomes 1033, 1036
- the !khu thorn-bush and its edible fruit 1036
- the Anteater's laws 200
- the consequences of a woman's smelling Ssho |oa scent 315
- the eating of water plants, or tcha, during purification 1097
- the Jackal's plant 794
- the medicinal uses of 794
- the names of 338, 757, 794
- the names of different 355
- the names of different in !kun country 975
- the names of various that are poisonous 851
- the names of, in !kun country 956
- the preparation and collecting of 766
- the preparation and cooking of 757, 964
- the preparation of 794
- the taste of various 794
- the uses for 794
- the |khoro 1090
- the |u' ||ke' or Tshaka plant 1096
- the |xam names of 766
- the ||gui tree 1032
- the ||kuirri 851
- the ≠nabbi plant 1096
- thorn-bush 57
- used as an emetic 794
- used as tinder 794
- used for healing 794
- used for healing dogs 794
- used for making dogs hunt jackal 794
- used for resin 794
- used in making of poisons 338
- used in purification or |koa 1096
- used to make arrow-poisons 851
- what people eat and wear 200
- where they are found 757
- which are edible 1090
- which are harmful if eaten at the wrong time 1090
- |kui 57
- |kui roots 627
- |xam names for 964
- |xam names of 125
- |xue and his father 1039
- |xue and the bam-bam, and as other things 1062
- |xue and the ostriches 1028
- |xue as !naxane and butterflies and with people who are afraid 1054
- |xue, his father and changes 1036
- ||kerri berries put in dried springbok's ears used for dancing rattles 600
- ||kho is put in the arrow's mouth 851
- ||kuakken 766
- ≠gue-||na and the |khoro are eaten when the moon has grown 1090
- ≠ku is made from the juice of the ||kao 851

play
- inside the house causes accidents 250

Pleiades
- and the sun 878
- and wind and stars 878
- are summer's things or stars 878

poem
- or incantation to 'Kleine Jackals' 142

poetry
- !gaunu's song sung by women 518
- a rhyme or 'spelletje' 202
- incantation to the Moon and stars 14
- of the |xam 202
- verse or song 1064
- what the lion says 1064

poison
- 'cooling' the poisoned game 520
- 'poison fang's poison' 851
- -arrows 851
- a description of 661
- a poisoned wound 102
- about 635
- and !nanna-sse 474
- and arrow-making 851
- and Day's Heart 45
- and death of people and place they go to after dying 249
- and doings of the |kaggen when the eland has been wounded 819
- and hunting ostrich 222
- and stars and game 520
- and the adhesive substance called |kwae used in arrowmaking 589
- and the arrows used for shooting springbok 588
- and the sorceress who snored Dia!kwain's throat 400
- becomes green 851
- black men poisoned Dia!kwain's aunt 400
- black mens' nails are poisonous 400
- collecting 851
- combinations of various 851
- cutting out 102
- description of 223
- eating food that strengthens 474
- excising 102
- feathered arrows and 661
- from plants 851
- from snakes and their venom 851
- from strong snakes 851
- from the ||kuarri plant, eaten by the porcupine 648
- insects that are poisonous 791
- is made in the morning 851
- is made when it is cool 851
- its heat 851
- made by 'Grass Bushmen' from grubs and feared 330
- made using saliva 851
- makes the animal vomit 819
- names of 588
- on the arrow shaft 851
- people- 661
- plants and animals used in making of 223
- plants that are poisonous 964
- plants used in purification that are poisonous 1096
- poisoned arrows used in hunting 707
- poisoned flesh 102
- poisoning of Lynx by Jackal and Hyena 45
- poisoning of the arrow barblet or ||kuken 918
- poisonous plant 1090
- poisonous plants and phases of the moon 1090
- precautions taken with -arrows 851
- preparation of 589
- removing poison from a man's flesh 101
- snake venom 223
- that attacks the eland's 'heart's-arteries' 819
- that is strong 851
- that works quickly or slowly 851
- the actions of on the wounded game 819
- the efficacy and strength of various 851
- the eland recovers from and lives 819
- the exchange of 707
- the juice from the ||kao plant 851
- the juice of the ||kuanni 589
- the making of 223, 635, 851
- the Moon's water 'cools' poison and cures the dying game 514
- the name of 661
- the rain's things are poisonous 580
- the use of a plant called !gwe for making 635
- the |u' ||ke' or Tshaka 1096
- the ≠gue-||na plant is poisonous 1090
- used by 'Flat Bushmen' 223
- used by 'Grass Bushmen' 223
- used on arrowheads 588
- when a man's flesh moves 102
- words and sentences including the name of one used by the |xam 48
- |kai ka !gaoken 330
- ||kuirri is shredded to make 851
- ≠ku 851

poisoning
- 'we poison downwards' 919
- and avoiding looking at the Moon 468
- and shooting of game 468
- methods of 919
- of arrows for hunting 919
- of the arrow barblet, or ||kuken 919
- of the Quagga by her husband 894
- poisoned wounds cooled by the Moon 468
- the poison dissolves off the barblet into the flesh 919
- the Quagga's children's song about 894

poisons
- !gweh or Malkop Gift 338
- !nanni and Tamme's descriptions of those used by the !kun 1053
- a description of various 1053
- and arrows 272
- and eating game 338
- and eating poisoned meat 272
- and gender 338
- and hunting 272
- and Ichneumon's discourse 272
- and intoxication 338
- and weapons 338
- and wounds 338
- and ≠kasin 346
- bartering for 338
- called Boom Gift 346, 347
- combinations of different 338
- descriptions of 338
- fast and slow-acting 820
- from different snakes 820
- from puffadder and an insect called |ßkururu 346
- from puffadder and |ßkururu insect, mixed 347
- from snakes 338
- from ≠kasin's place 338
- how !nanni's people gather them 1053
- Kai caterpillar used 1053
- mixing arrow poisons 347
- of puffadder or !guken 820
- poisonous plants 338
- prohibitions relating to 338
- snake- 820
- that cause swelling 820
- that kill 820
- that kill people 338
- that kill quickly 346
- the effects of 338, 820
- the gathering of 1053
- the making of 346, 347
- the mixing and combination of 347
- the names of 346
- the names of different 338
- the names of plants and trees used 1053
- the preparation and mixing of 346
- the preparation of 338, 1053
- the scent of 272
- used by 'Flat Bushmen' 272
- used by Koranna 338
- used by the !kun to shoot game 1053
- used by |xam 338
- used for shooting game 347
- used in hunting 338
- used in shooting game 346
- used on arrows 346, 1053
- when people are bitten on the hunting-ground 820
- where they are found 338
- ||khwi 820
- |ßkururu roasted and mixed with puffadder poison and Boom gift 346

police
- 'Kafir police' 27
- and ||kabbo's capture 27

pool
- called !kaugen |ka |ka 697
- in the red sandhills, to which the !khau journeys 697

poor
- Bushmen feel they are 679
- manner of dividing fat 679

Porcupine
- accounting for appearance of the porcupine 452
- and !kauruwo 610
- and Anteater's laws 198
- and creation of eland 207
- and lightning 452
- and nature and habits of porcupines 293
- and the actions of rain 452
- and the actions of the Dawn's stars 505
- and the great Star !gaunu, which singing named the stars 505
- and the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- and the rescue of |kaggen and |kwammana 610, 788
- and |kaggen 88
- and |kaggen and ||khwai-hemm 788
- and |kaggen takes away the Tick's sheep 293
- and |kaggen's children 682
- and ||khwai-hemm 293
- another name for 610
- her father of is the monster ||khwai-hemm 88
- her son 293
- her speech concerning coming of ||khwai-hemm 293
- his younger sister 452
- how it came by the quills on its back and neck 452
- is Ichneumon's mother 293
- is struck by the angry Rain 452
- is the new maiden's brother 452
- is |kwammana's wife 207
- its nature and habits and the stars 505
- its quills 452
- knows the time for returning home from the Dawn's stars 505
- porcupines and new maidens 452
- prepares the children to rescue their fathers from ||khwai-hemm 788
- puts a heated spear in the children's ears 788
- teaches the children to sit still like stones 788
- the monster ||khwai-hemm's speech and 88
- the new maiden's brother becomes 452
- transformation into 452
- was formerly a man 452
- |kaggen and |kwammana visit the Dassie's house 610
- ||khwai-hemm is her father 788

porcupine
- 'bewitching' its return 734
- 'gives its back' 625
- 'it black stands' 729
- 'sees' with its nose 419
- 'stands' 419
- 'summer's porcupines' 729
- a belief about the bat and the porcupine 409
- a description of its hole 738
- a girl does not eat its tail 735
- a |xam belief about 412
- accounting for its appearance 453
- accounting for its quills 453
- and 'not a little story', 'a great story' 413
- and eating the tail 736
- and falling stars 409
- and girls 411
- and hunger 627
- and jackal Kora fable 1157
- and scent 409
- and stars and Milky Way 409
- and the hail 412, 453
- and the moonlight 625
- and the rain 453
- and the seasons 729
- and the stars and the Milky Way 453
- and the time of day 419
- and the wind 419, 734
- and times of day 729
- and wind 409
- at night 419
- avoidance behaviour relating to 412
- beliefs about 409
- calling its name 411
- cannot see at noonday 409
- cannot see well at noon 419
- children fear 412
- comes at night 625
- digging for 739
- distribution of its flesh 730
- dividing 627
- does not forget its time for returning 453
- during the day 419
- eaten by different groups of |xam 627
- eaten by different people 730
- eaten by |han≠kass'o's and Dia!kwain's people 627
- eating 412
- eating its tail is avoided 734
- eating the porcupine's tail is avoided 735
- eats ||kuarri 648
- family 730
- father- 730
- feels that it is hail 453
- female- 730
- girls and youths must avoid the rain's things 411
- goes along with bat 409
- habits of 648
- he- 730
- hole 730
- hunters beat it to death 625
- hunters fear its quills 625
- hunting 625, 729, 730
- intends to prick with its quills 625
- is a kua kua ssi-kuiten, or thing that people do not perceive 729
- is a rain's thing 411, 453
- is a rain's thing or animal 412
- is different 453
- is eaten by the old and by married women 735
- is feared 625
- is nocturnal 409, 419, 453
- is the Water's thing 453
- it 'becomes white' and vanishes 729
- its 'tail's rattles' 625
- its actions at night 729
- its backbone 627
- its ears and nose tell it things 453
- its eyesight 409
- its faculties 410, 419, 453, 729, 734
- its fine hearing 410
- its flesh does not resemble that of other things 453
- its flesh is made into soup 730
- its flesh is the rain's legs 453
- its habits and actions 734
- its hearing 409
- its hole 625
- its hole or house 419
- its leg-bones are not broken 729
- its meat is carried in nets 730
- its nature and habits 409, 410, 419, 453, 625, 738
- its nose tells it things 419
- its quills 409, 625
- its quills are placed neatly out of the wind 739
- its return to its hole 734
- its spoor 729, 734
- its tail and the rain 735, 736
- its tail is eaten by women 627
- its tail openings which rattle are called |kerriten 729
- lessons regarding 412
- lives in an anteater's hole 738
- makes people sleepy against their will 409
- male and female 625
- male- 730
- men do not eat the tail 734
- men eat from its backbone 736
- methods of cooking and eating 736
- methods of hunting 409, 410, 419, 730
- mode of eating 627
- mother- 730
- observances when hunting 739
- parent's instruct children how to get food in the event of their orphaning 413
- parts eaten by different people 731
- people must watch it 409
- perceives things with its thinking strings 453
- prohibitions regarding eating 735, 736
- prohibitions regarding eating its neck-lumps 453
- rain protects frogs 742
- respecting 411, 739
- returns to a different hole 734
- returns to hole with bat 409
- seeks food 453
- seeks food at night 734
- sharing 627
- she- 730
- sitting waiting and watching for 419
- smelling it to protect against gambro 742
- smells the hunters 419
- smells the hunters on the wind 734
- soup made from 627
- stopping up the entrances to its hole 729
- tactics in hunting 729
- teachings about 411
- that remains inside its hole 729
- the 'fashioning' of its hole 738
- the 'little' 730
- the actions it performs with its quills 729
- the back of its neck 412
- the burning of its quill 625
- the cooking of its flesh 731
- the cutting of 627
- the distribution of its meat 731, 736
- the eating of 453, 731, 734, 736
- the habits of the female 729
- the hunting of 734
- the name of its hole 734
- the parts eaten 730
- the parts that are eaten 627, 734, 735
- the parts that are eaten and avoided 736
- the parts that men and women eat 627
- the people fear it 729
- the placement of its bones 733
- the Porcupine is the brother of the Maiden taken in a whirlwind 453
- the Porcupine is transformed by the angry Rain 453
- the preparation and cooking of 627
- the preparation and cooking of its flesh 730
- the sounds it makes 729
- the stars know where it is 409
- the story of the porcupine 413
- the time it comes 409
- the treatment and placement of its quills 739
- the treatment of its bones 729, 733
- the white part of its tail is called the 'danger signal' or !gwe 735
- waiting for 409, 734
- was formerly a man 453
- watching and waiting for 413
- ways of ensuring it comes out of and returns to its hole 729
- when it returns 419
- where it is eaten 627
- where the hail sits in its flesh 453

portent
- see presentiment 287

portention
- a set of pieces for divining called |xu 1042
- and presentiment 215
- and sneezing 215
- and ||kabbo's personal history 215
- divining methods used by the !kun 1042
- the pieces of wood called |xu used for divining 1050
- ||kabbo's family is talking about him 215

possessing
- and widow's story 253
- ground 253
- honey 253
- waterholes 253

possession
- and healing 493
- and swallows 521
- and the sorcerer's snoring work 493
- by spirit-people 493
- by swallows 521
- snoring of a person possessed by a sorcerer 493
- sorcerers enter people as swallows and kill them or make them ill 521
- the ritual performed by the sorcerer 493
- the wound of 493

pot
- and poisons gathered and prepared by the !kun 1053
- and the death of the Lion 843
- and the drinking of soup 843
- and the Hyena's revenge 194, 843
- and the Quagga who was poisoned by her husband 894
- commented on by |han≠kass'o 870
- containing the Quagga's fat breaks, losing it 894
- elephant heart is cooked in 1006
- for cooking 870
- made of clay 870
- more about |xue 1075
- of soup 194
- poisons boiled and prepared in one 1053
- the cooking pot put by Hyena on the Lion's head 843
- the little Quagga cries into and breaks 894
- the making of one made of clay 870
- used to boil meat 870
- used to cook ostrich 15
- |xue and the ostriches 1028
- |xue as ostrich and other things 1025
- |xue cooked in 1028
- |xue's 1075
- |xue's wife puts him in 1025

pots
- 'working' 823
- and food of the Ticks 787
- are dried in the sun 823
- are gum-coated 823
- are not struck with a stone when new 823
- are rubbed and sealed with fat 823
- are smoothed with a !kau bone 823
- are traded between the !kun and the Makoba 989
- blood is boiled inside 823
- how |han≠kass'o's wife, Ssuobba-||ken, learned to make 823
- the !kun of !nanni's country do not make them 989
- the clay used for 823
- the gum used for sealing them 823
- the insides are washed out after purification 1093
- the making of 823, 989
- the making of clay 823
- the Makoba make and exchange 989
- the trading of 989
- the treatment of new 823
- there is one for purifying and one for cooking food 1093
- used in preparing the cleansing preparation 1093
- women teach each other to make 823
- |kaggen and the Ticks 787

pouch
- for tobacco 603
- stolen from ||kabbo by a dog 603

prayer
- and 'Bushman rice' 322
- and beating a stone on the ground 446, 1010
- and Dia!kwain's uncle |uherre's power over ostriches 442
- and finding food 322
- and getting rid of the evil influence of bad dreams 465
- and prayers regarding the successful hunting of springbok 877
- and the beating of the stone on ground 442
- and the young moon's story 1043
- and what the stars say 877
- and women 1010
- asking a star for food 876
- asking for the star's heart so the people will not hunger 877
- asking the star for its arm that does not miss its aim 877
- asking the star for its filled stomach 877
- asking the star for its satisfied heart 877
- asking the stars for their hearts so the people will not go hungry 876
- asking the stars to allow the people to see the game 876
- asking the stars to take the people's hearts 876, 877
- for finding food 1040
- for food 14
- for successful hunting 877
- gestures performed during 162
- incantation 877
- incantation to the Moon and stars 14
- Karu's, to the moon 1043
- or address to the Moon 465
- or address to the star Canopus and Sirius 322
- or incantation 876
- people speak to Moon 162
- recited by !nanni 1040
- rituals performed during 322
- sun, Moon and stars 160
- to a star 876
- to Canopus and Sirius 322
- to dead game-sorcerers 446
- to game sorcerers 442
- to Moon 162
- to star 160
- to stars 322
- to the moon 1040
- to the spirit-people or |nu-!ke 446
- to the stars when hungry 876, 877
- to the young moon and finding food 1043
- what is said 162
- ≠kamme-an's 446

praying
- for rain 456
- how Xaa-ttin asked the dead magician !nuin-|kui-ten for rain 456

pregnant
- and the wife cut open by her foolish husband who believes her to be greedy 389
- what the man did to his wife when she was pregnant 389

premonition
- and the lion's dream 424, 425
- and Xwerri-kau's story 424
- lions dream and have premonitions 424, 425
- see presentiment 287

presentiment
- a baboon knows when danger approaches 553
- an owl is believed to foretell the coming of a lion 827
- and the actions of springbok and gemsbok 429
- and the springbok's story 427
- and the stick of Ssho |oa used by baboons tells its body things 553
- of death 427
- of killing game and the actions of moths at the fire 470
- premonitions of death 429
- springbok and gemsbok knew the death of Dia!kwain's wife 429
- the actions of the game foretell death 429
- the crying wind and death 535
- the game knows the time of a man's death 427
- the game knows things and must be observed 427
- the game's actions foretells things 427
- the wind and forebodings of evil 535

presentiments
- 'Bushman letters' 287
- a beating of the flesh which tells the |xam things 287
- about game 287
- about springbok 287
- and finding people 287
- and getting food 469
- and hunting game 469
- and hunting or perceiving meat 287
- and the actions of the !ka !karro insect which foretells the getting of food 469
- and things the body fears 492
- are inside people's bodies, flesh 287
- are knowledge of things that happen elsewhere 492
- are like dreams 492
- beating of flesh 287
- dreams foretell things 461
- feeling which tells of something happening in another place 492
- feelings 492
- feelings in bodies 492
- foretell 492
- knowledge of things 492
- letters 287
- of death 461
- of the |xam 492
- of things that are going to happen 287
- of |xam 287
- omens 461
- premonitions 287
- quivering 287
- speak truth 287
- tapping 287
- telling things are about to happen 287
- the definition of 492
- the mist foretells the approach of a commando 467
- the Moon and finding food 468
- warn of danger 492
- |kumm 287

prison
- 'house of ordure' 27
- and genealogies of |xam 30
- and hard labour 166
- and stocks 174
- and |xam 30
- and ||kabbo's account of being caught and jailed 174
- and ||kabbo's capture 27
- Beaufort 27, 166
- dates of sentencing 104
- gaol 166
- House of Correction, Cape Town 110
- jail 166
- names of different 27
- numbers 104
- personal history of prisoners 104
- the Breakwater Convict Station 27, 30, 104, 166
- ||kabbo's account of being caught and brought to the Breakwater 166
- ||kabbo's imprisonment 27

prisoner
- the name of a Koranna 115

prisoner numbers
- of four |xam convicts at Breakwater 1118
- of |nu'xa or Hans, Mkuan or |kabbeten, Mosunyan, and Molef 1118

prisoners
- and white men 831
- their names 831
- |han≠kass'o's dream of 831
- |xam 831

prohibition
- against 'playing' with meat 698
- against calling the Moon large 874
- against making pets of animals that are eaten 698
- against playing with the springbok's skin and bones 709
- against sitting in the shade 463
- against the killing of spirit-animals 1101
- and death 1100
- and new maidens 286
- and the treatment of |kaggen 471
- animals found near graves are not killed 1101
- avoiding saying the name of the Moon 874
- eating jackal 16
- food and hunting observances 708
- Mr Stow's picture of the dance of sorcerers 434
- of laughing at and disrespecting sorcerers 434
- regarding food 16
- regarding the killing of the hartebeest 471
- springbok possess magic arrows 709
- the Moon is not to be laughed at 874
- the snake found near the grave is not killed 1101
- the treatment of the 'growing' girl 286
- what men and women eat 16
- when the ||hin snake must not be killed 1100
- women must not eat the flesh from the springbok's shoulder blades 708

prohibitions
- about eating the porcupine's neck 412
- and Anteater's laws 149
- and avoidance behaviour 411, 416
- and behaviour 149
- and charms 416
- and eating certain parts of the game 424
- and girls 411
- and porcupines 412
- and rain's 'things' 411
- and the calling of names 411
- and the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- and the rain 412
- and what children eat 412
- and young men 411
- avoiding looking at the Moon 468
- girls and youths must avoid the rain's things 411
- looking at the Moon and finding food 468
- mothers with children and their eating of hartebeest 416
- regarding the eating of certain animals by adults 903
- relating to new maidens 452
- relating to the Moon 468
- what children should avoid eating 424

Proteles
- Aardwolf 192, 660
- aardwolf 585
- aardwolf or |gipp 161
- and Anteater's laws 192, 198
- and porcupine hunting 729
- and the porcupine are kua kua ssi-kuiten, or things that people do not perceive 729
- burns |kaggen in the fire 660
- catches |kaggen 660
- hunting of with a dog 161
- is a beast of prey 660
- is a person 660
- is |kwammana's grandmother 660
- its hair used in the making of the |khu or the 'Bushman soup spoon' 585
- its house 660
- names for 585, 660
- or aardwolf 729
- or |gipp 729
- roasting and eating the little 660
- story of Strandwolf and Aardwolf 192
- Striped Jackal 660
- the aunt- 660
- the little- 660
- the mother- 660
- |gipp 585, 660
- |ku 660
- |kwammana, the Ichneumon and |kaggen visit its house 660

puffadder
- !guken 820
- and girls 411
- and |ßkururu insect 347
- girls and youths must avoid the rain's things 411
- is a rain's thing 411
- is the rain's animal 740
- its colour 411
- its glands used for making arrow poison 347
- resembles the rainbow 411
- teachings about 411
- the appearance of 411
- the effects of its poison 820

punishment
- and beating with reeds 773
- by beating 1082
- by burning 1082
- by death 1082
- by husbands 1082
- by other people 1082
- by parents 1082
- by shooting 1082
- children are scolded 1082
- for stealing 1082
- men are shot with many arrows 1082
- methods favoured by the !kun 1082
- of men, women and children 1082
- of wives 1082
- of |gui-an or Dootje 773
- of |xam workers by their white masters and mistresses 773
- women are burned 1082
- women are given to their parents 1082
- women are taken away to their parent's country 1082

purification
- !kun name for the ceremony 1094
- a ceremony 1093, 1097, 1098
- a cleansing ceremony 1094, 1096
- a description of the cleansing process 1093, 1094, 1097, 1098
- a ritual 1094
- a speech during 1094
- abstaining from food for two days 1097
- after killing a person 1093
- after shooting a person 1093
- after shooting someone 1093
- and cutting 'in the old mark' 1094
- and respecting or fearing the killer's name 1094
- and scarification 1094
- and smoking 1098
- and the 'operating' of tobacco 1098
- and the consumption of food and water 1097
- and the leaves of two trees 1093
- and the |kui fruit 1093
- and the |u' ||ke' plant 1095
- and |kui 1095
- and |u' ||ke' or Tshaka plant 1096
- further particulars regarding 1098
- how the man is 'operated' on with tobacco 1098
- how the man is prepared for drinking water 1097
- methods of preparing the |kui and the leaves 1093
- or |koa 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098
- the 'proper person' who assists, or 'operates' 1097
- the cleansing fire 1093
- the cleansing food 1093
- the cleansing preparation 1093
- the cleansing ritual 1097, 1098
- the cleansing ritual and preparation of the cleansing food 1095
- the eating of 'water food', or water plants, or tcha 1097
- the father squirts water on the man being cleansed 1097
- the father-in-law cuts the man between the brows 1094
- the man does not eat or drink water for two days 1093
- the man does not leave or go away 1098
- the man fears Indian Hemp and other people's tobacco 1098
- the man has 'done without two things' 1093
- the man must cleanse with food and leaves and not food alone 1093
- the man must not enter other people's houses 1098
- the man rubs himself with |kui fruit 1094
- the man seeks his slayer, or enemy 1098
- the man sits on his kudu skin 1093
- the man smokes only his father's tobacco 1098
- the man speaks of his heart 1094
- the man strikes and rubs his breast 1094
- the man waits two days for the country to be safe 1098
- the man's father 'operates' or cleanses him with water 1093
- the other people are fed from the cleansing food 1093
- the preparatory ceremonies 1097, 1098
- the role of the father or father-in-law 1097
- the role of the father, or father-in-law 1093
- the role of the father/father-in-law 1098
- the slayer is not feared 1098
- the two-day cleansing period 1098
- the use of two pots and two vessels 1093
- tobacco is smoked and not Indian Hemp 1098
- what the father-in-law says to the relatives of the dead man 1094
- what the man says while cleansing himself 1094
- |u' ||ke' in food 1095
- ≠gua and ≠na leaves are used 1093

Quagga
- accounting for appearance of 558
- accounting for the food eaten by quaggas 564
- and Anteater's laws 198
- and the game once tame: why it grew wild 490
- and Tortoise 372
- beaten and chased by Chaser-of-food 490
- blames her daughter for the loss of her liver 894
- dies after she has drunk 894
- dies under Creeboom 372
- drinks at 'Neck Vulture' 894
- feeds her child her liver 372
- feeds her children pieces of her liver 894
- her children cry 894
- her children's song 894
- her fat is lost when the pots break 894
- her grandparents 372
- her husband is trampled to death 894
- her husband kills her to eat her 894
- her husband pierces her with poisoned and sharpened bones in the bed 894
- her liver is broiled 372
- her liver tastes 'Excellent!' 894
- her mat 558
- her parents hold a dance 894
- her parents kill her husband 894
- her people avenge her death 372, 372
- her sieve 564
- her story 372
- hides her liver from her children 894
- is 'meat' 372
- is a person of the Early Race 894
- is killed by Jackals 372
- is killed with poisoned bones 372
- its flesh resembles a person's 558
- killed because she was fat 558
- leaves her husband with her children, singing 894
- made a sieve from her mat 558
- makes a sieve from her mat 564
- makes bitter bulle 564
- makes flour 564
- makes flour from !kauru berries 564
- makes meal 564
- marries a Jackal 372
- of Early Race 558
- quagga was formerly a woman 558
- quagga's other name is 'mat' 558
- quaggas cry if they smell blood or if another is wounded 894
- resembled a boulder 558
- resembled a person 558
- tells her children not to feed others her liver 894
- the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food 678
- the !khau's flesh resembles 678
- the !khau's wife's people hunt real 678
- the Baboons feared her greatness 558
- the Blue Crane, the Jackals and the Hyena taste her liver 894
- the Jackal is her husband 372
- the little, burns the Tortoise's mouth 894
- the little, drops her tears into the pot, breaking it 894
- the little, loses her mother's liver to the Tortoise 894
- the nature and habits of quaggas 558, 894
- the noises quaggas make in a group 894
- the Tortoise takes a piece of her liver 894
- the young He-Dog married into her family 894
- the |xam feel that they are like the quagga 558
- was a woman 564
- was fat 558
- was formerly a person 564
- was killed by the Baboons 558
- what people call it 558
- who was poisoned by her husband the young He-Dog 894
- young Quagga cries on Jackal's cooking pots 372
- young Quagga sits in Creeboom 372

quagga
- !kun name of 1063
- a moth which foretells the killing of 470
- acts like a person 540
- and the baboons are people 540
- and Xwerri-kau's story 424
- and |kaggen 392
- animals eaten by the !kun 1063
- formerly ate ≠kau a-ken 392
- how the Jackal deceived the Hyena 401
- hunted by lions 245
- in chippings made by Dia!kwain's father 554
- is a 'wind's thing' 235
- is wild 235
- its appearance, nature and habits 540
- its moth 470
- its nature and habits 235
- its organs are like baboon's 540
- its parts resemble a person's 540
- smells like a person 540
- the doings of a family of lions 245
- the prey of Hyena 401
- the Quagga and Baboons were formerly people 540
- the reasons for its colour 392
- thinks it is a person 540
- Xwerri-kau was pursuing when a lion attacked him 424

quartz
- cuts deeply 796
- cuts people 796
- Oud Stoffel cut his foot on 796
- the cutting power of 796
- used for cutting 796

quiver
- the coming of |kaggen to sit upon foretells the shooting of a hartebeest 471

Rain
- 'working' and 'understanding' 741
- -animal is like a great ox 323
- and 'wrong' actions of people 125
- and buchu 741
- and food 125
- and mist 323
- and new maiden 323
- and people's behaviour 125
- and the First Bushman girl carried away by a whirlwind 323
- and transformation 323
- and transformation of people into frogs or toads 323
- and water 323
- and whirlwind 323
- and widow's story 253
- and work of Rainmakers or Rain-sorcerers 125
- angry 125
- called !khoa 741
- carries off the young woman in the shape of a bull 741
- clouds 125
- courts the young woman 741
- is appeased by the smell of burnt horns 741
- its anger 741
- its animals 323
- its breath 'shuts out the place' 741
- its breath is mist 741, 741
- its bushes 253
- its home is the water-pit 741
- its Rain–bull 741
- its scent 741
- its things 741
- Rainmaking 125
- the scent of the ||khou and the young woman 741
- the young woman rides it 741
- the young woman rubs him with buchu, making him sleep 741
- the young woman throws buchu at his forehead 741
- the young woman works it nicely 741
- the ||khou is its thing 741
- transforms people into frogs 741

rain
- !haunu's things which resemble water 900
- !haunu, the rain-sorcerer, is 900
- !khwa 580
- !khwa or !khoa 852
- 'fighting' 452
- 'fine' 639, 640
- 'gentle' 639, 640
- 'is dealing gently with the Sun' 1066
- 'killing' 452, 453, 510
- 'killing' rain 274
- 'lightens' 852
- 'making fine' its liquid 811
- 'nice' 640
- 'Rain's person' 274
- 'shoots' like a girl does 510
- 'shoots' people 510
- 'stands' 613
- 'throws' its things at people 740
- 'water's child' 214
- -clouds 509, 865
- -clouds and swallows 521
- -figure 578
- -making and the !kun 1010
- -sorcerer 578
- -storm 452, 511
- -water 509
- a call to 811
- a description of 655
- a maiden who snaps her fingers at the rain causes lightning 510
- a male fire is made to disperse or 'divide' it 813
- a Rain story 395
- a speech to 452
- about new maidens 360
- about the porcupine 412
- addressing it 578
- an address to 452, 811
- and !haunu's sneezing 900
- and !xu trees and ||k'e caterpilllars 1066
- and 'Bushman rice' 299
- and 'new water' 737
- and 'sorcery's bell' 812
- and a maiden's cursing 509
- and a sorcerer called |kaunu 911
- and a story of rainmaking told to ||kabbo by a rainmaker 275
- and actions of maidens 377
- and actions of people 393
- and adornment and painting with ||ka or 'rooi klip' 377
- and avoidance behaviour 456
- and bad weather 510
- and beating a stone on the ground 1010
- and beliefs about death 879
- and bewitchment 668
- and black clouds 1066
- and bleeding noses 355
- and Blue Crane's speech 275
- and Brinkkop 274
- and buchu 452, 900
- and buchu and tto 737
- and chameleon 355
- and chameleons 356
- and cleansing of the new maidens 452
- and clouds 393, 452, 737, 815, 911
- and clouds and wind 760
- and clouds in the east 901
- and dance 578
- and dead people who come out of the ground 865
- and dead sorcerers 456, 865
- and death 274, 879
- and Dia!kwain's dream of the death of his father 461
- and disobedience 511
- and doings of 275
- and drinking-water 355
- and drought 274, 275, 528, 596
- and eating the porcupine's neck 412
- and falling stars 491
- and finding food 393
- and finding of food 275
- and flowers 531
- and food, hunting 275
- and girls 411
- and going home quickly from the hunting-ground 668
- and great tortoise 355
- and hail 412, 639, 640, 737
- and how Dia!kwain plays the bow in a thunderstorm 511
- and hunger 596
- and hunting 272
- and hunting of springbok 275
- and hunting ostriches and springbok 274
- and its things 852
- and lightning 378, 393, 509, 655, 811
- and lightning and thunder 510
- and locusts 638
- and magic things 521
- and methods of burial 879
- and mist 274, 809
- and mountains 274
- and new maidens 452, 509, 531
- and painting by maidens 378
- and people's actions 456
- and plants 393
- and plants and bushes 355
- and plants and trees 274
- and plants and trees and growth of things 275
- and porcupine's 'danger signal' or !gwe 735
- and porcupines 453
- and prohibitions relating to new maidens 452
- and protection from lightning 1010
- and protection of young men 378
- and rain's things 356
- and rain's water 360
- and rainbows 1103
- and rainmakers 491
- and rainmaking 274, 393, 456
- and related weather 510, 900
- and remarks concerning copies of Bushman pictures nos. I-XXIV 578
- and remarks made by |han≠kass'o regarding a painting 578
- and respecting magic things 521
- and respecting swallows 521
- and seasons 272, 275
- and seeking food 1077
- and snakes 452
- and snow 640
- and sorcerers 493
- and springbok 456, 613
- and star's digging stones 275
- and stars 275, 320, 531
- and stars and death 531
- and sun 275
- and swallows 521
- and the !khau and the Driedoorn tree 613
- and the !khoa ka ||kerri-ssi !kau, or rain's things 578
- and the !kuerri |nan 783
- and the 'great cloud-wind' 1077
- and the actions of a new maiden 510
- and the actions of new maidens 453
- and the actions of the clouds 613
- and the actions of the new maiden 453
- and the actions of the springbok 701
- and the actions of young unmarried women and girls 817
- and the appearance of the 'jackal cloud' 814
- and the bad weather 509
- and the behaviour of the |nu'she and the tt' e birds 1077
- and the building of houses 701
- and the bushes 528
- and the clouds 639
- and the collecting of different foods 668
- and the coming of springbok 814
- and the dead rainmaker !nuin-|kui-ten 456
- and the dreams of rain-sorcerers 811
- and the Early Race 900
- and the east wind 701
- and the eating of the tortoise 794
- and the flood at Victoria West 812
- and the great wind 1066
- and the growth of bushes and plants 528
- and the habits of jackals with food 743
- and the hunting-ground 452
- and the Ichneumon's discourse 272
- and the magic powers of the lion 449
- and the maiden who snapped her fingers 510
- and the Makoba 1103
- and the man who sought refuge from the rain in a cave and found a lion there 449
- and the new maiden's curse 452
- and the north wind 591, 592, 811
- and the old men's dream 811
- and the rainmaker 274
- and the rain–bull 809
- and the seasons 690
- and the snapping of fingers 509
- and the solar system 690
- and the sorcerer's thong 865
- and the stars 690
- and the thong 578
- and the time of year 690
- and the treatment of water and water pits 737
- and the Water's !kabbe 509
- and the Water's story 378
- and the west wind 593
- and the whirlwind 452
- and the wind 452, 456, 596, 1077
- and the wind and springbok hunting 701
- and the young man who became a Porcupine 453
- and the |khuken-|u |unu or caterpillar 581
- and the |xam 274
- and thirst 214, 596
- and thunder 737
- and thunder and lightning 355, 452, 453, 511, 531, 852, 900
- and transformation 737
- and water's people 393
- and water's things 740
- and waterbull 393
- and waterholes 272
- and water–pits 274, 275
- and water–springs 377
- and what happens if a maiden is spoken to against her wishes 509
- and what the 'Bushman rice' does when the ||xo hai stars come out 320
- and white men 690
- and wind 274, 355
- and young men 377, 411, 668
- and |kannu the rainmaker 639
- and |kaunu striking the bowstring 911
- and |xam 275
- and ||kabbo's personal history 276
- and ||kannu or ||kunnu the rainmaker 811
- and ||kunn, the rainmaker 528
- and ||kunn, the rainmaker or rain-sorcerer 777
- and ≠kagara's fight with !haunu 900
- angry 378, 411, 811, 812
- angry and 'killing' 511
- angry rain and angry maidens 509
- appeasing 737
- as an omen of death 461
- asking for gentle 811
- at Victoria West 813
- attacks with hail 737
- avoiding angering 737
- becomes a pond 737
- brings food 355
- brings springbok 274
- broke 911
- called 'Aquilae's water' 690
- carries off girls 531
- caused by sorcery 812
- changes karosses and quiver skins into springbok 737
- changes people into frogs 737
- changes sticks into bushes 737
- channelling the running water 811
- clouds 593
- clouds called ||kum'm by the !kun 1062
- clouds that herald and bring 814
- collecting rain-water 355
- comes at place where bull is killed 393
- comes out of the clouds 865
- consequences of playing instruments in 511
- cools earth 274
- created a pond 746
- custom and behaviour when it rains 355
- customs and rituals relating to 456
- darkness's 812
- dead people are those who rode the Rain 865
- dead sorcerers' hearts fall into waterpit in the form of 491
- death and 'a person who rains' 879
- different kinds of 655, 690, 809
- different types 275
- different types of 452, 510, 639, 640
- dislikes new maidens 360
- dislikes odour of new maidens 360
- dispersing its clouds 813
- does not fall when frogs are killed 742
- dreaming makes 811
- dreaming of 214
- dreams and 811
- eating its things prohibited 852
- education about 817
- falls on |xue 1055
- falls when a person dies 879
- feeds the people 528
- female 274
- food is plentiful in times of abundant rainfall 743
- from the west 777
- gentle 510
- gentle and hard 655
- gentle rain 275
- girls and youths must avoid the rain's things 411
- girls do not eat the porcupine's tail 735
- girls paint tto on the water's things 737
- gives sores 378
- goes away with its tail between its legs 852
- grows angry 748
- heavy 865
- horns are burnt to divide or divide its clouds 816
- how an old woman asked a chameleon for 355
- how girls treat 737
- how people address it when it is angry 452
- imitates the girl's speech 509
- imitates the maiden's speech 510
- in !kun country 1077
- in !nanni and Tamme's country 1066
- in Bushmanland 690
- in the !kun country 1066
- in the east 900
- in the form of an eland 746
- in |han≠kass'o's country 777
- is a person 655
- is addressed by a man with a good heart 852
- is an eland the people do not eat 746
- is angry with new maiden 360
- is angry, or wrathful 852
- is asked to fall gently 852
- is bound 578
- is frightening 531
- is made ashamed 852
- is not quiet 655
- is possessed by rain-sorcerers 865
- is ridden by rainmaker 274
- is strong 740
- its 'bell' that kills people 812
- its 'body' 639
- its 'legs' 639, 640
- its 'liquid' 640
- its 'pot' which fell on Victoria West 812
- its 'water' 690
- its actions 668, 737, 740
- its actions on the hunting-ground 453
- its actions when angry 452, 452, 531, 813
- its anger 412
- its animals 411, 412, 578, 740
- its body 578, 737, 812
- its body parts 274, 275, 453, 591, 809, 812
- its breath 274
- its child is the Water child 748
- its child resembles a calf and grows and gets horns 748
- its cloud resembles a beast of prey 452
- its clouds 456, 528, 591, 592, 813, 852
- its clouds are called 'rain's hair' 814
- its clouds become green 816
- its clouds come out 811
- its clouds come quickly 668
- its darkness 511
- its darkness resembles night 816
- its effect on plants and animals 1066
- its flesh 578, 746
- its hair 456
- its hair is the clouds 613
- its hut 746
- its leg 865
- its legs, hair, skin, blood, ribs 275
- its lightning blinded 511
- its lightning kills 377
- its lightning struck Dia!kwain's people 511
- its liquid 360, 809, 852, 865
- its liquid or dew 638
- its liquid, or legs 815
- its magic power 452
- its meat 740
- its meat vanishes and burns away in the fire 746
- its men 578
- its mist 746
- its navel 452, 578, 746
- its new and old hair 275
- its people 578
- its place 393
- its pond 746, 748
- its power 453
- its rituals 578
- its scent 528
- its shadow or shade is feared 274
- its skin 275, 809
- its smell 275, 355, 456
- its sorcerer 639
- its sorcerers 393, 395, 456
- its sorcerers or rainmakers 452, 528, 591
- its spoor 613, 746
- its stones 531
- its stones or hail 453
- its things 412, 452, 453, 521, 578, 613, 740
- its things are avoided 411
- its things or animals, !khoa ka ||kerri-ssi !kau 581
- its things or its animals 355
- its things strike and harm 411
- its things, or !khoa ka ||kerri-ssi !kau 580
- its tortoise must not be eaten by young unmarried men and women 852
- its whirlwind 737
- its whirlwind carries the people into the sky 748
- its wind 591, 592, 737, 748, 748
- its wind blows through the houses 815
- keeps people away from their homes 668
- killing 812
- killing rain 275
- kills with lightning because it feels the girl does not protect the people 452
- lightning 411
- likes the smell of certain things 737
- made by |xue kills the Moon 1057
- made the waterpit 509
- magic or !khwa ka tiken-tiken 458
- makes bowstrings break 701
- makes people tremble with cold 1066
- makes the 'place' comfortable and beautiful 639
- makes things come 528
- making fires when it is wet 638
- making shelter from 815
- male 274
- male rain walks in dust on ground 274
- mode of addressing 815
- modes of addressing it so it will fall gently 811
- names for 655
- names of 690
- observances relating to 668
- old men address 815
- on its tail 735
- on the hunting-ground 668, 746
- parts of its 'body' 613
- people fear the darkness's 813
- people prepare their houses for 814
- people speak to 510
- people strike their navels and snap their fingers 452
- people try and roast it 746
- people who have 'got the Rain' 865
- pictured in rock painting copy no. 8 809
- places a great black cloud 1066
- places to shelter from 668
- playing in 817
- prayers to 456
- prohibitions relating to 510, 817
- properties of 275
- protecting against 531
- protection from 377, 737, 900, 1010
- protection of, for a fungus 668
- protects frogs 742
- punishes new maidens 360
- punishes people 509
- puts out fires 748
- qualities of 274
- rain's liquid 275
- rain's scent 275
- rain's shade 274
- rain's wind 275
- rain-animals 393
- rain-beast 393
- rain-clouds 274, 275, 355, 760, 809, 900
- rain-clouds come out at the water–spring 375
- rain-clouds turned back by the west wind 596
- rain-sorcerer 911
- rain-water 865
- rainmaker controls it 528
- rainmakers 493, 578
- rainmaking 275, 395, 578, 777, 911
- rainmaking at |han≠kass'o's place 777
- rainmaking in |han≠kass'o's country 777
- rainmaking, when the wind is in the north 591
- rain–clouds and 'jackal' clouds 814
- resembles the new maiden 452, 509
- resembles the new maiden's manner of speaking 452
- resembles what the maiden did to the people 510
- respect for and treatment of 737
- respecting 852
- respecting and fearing 531
- respects a person's 'eye' 531
- rituals relating to 1010
- scolding 852
- shuts people into the hut 746
- smells a cursed person 452
- smells people's scent 531
- smells the scent of girls 411
- snapping fingers and lightning 510
- springbok hunting follows 613, 701
- stars fall into the waterpit and sound like 491
- story of the old man who makes 274
- takes the new maiden away 452
- teachings about 453, 511
- that 'stands' 655
- that 'strikes' people 655
- that brings the cold 814
- that children hide from 655
- that comes at night 812
- that comes at night is not 'nice' 813
- that falls in streams 655
- that falls in |han≠kass'o's country 809
- that is 'great' 865
- that kills and causes loss of homes 274
- that knocks down houses 811
- that knocks things down 655
- that makes the place black 655
- that returns to the northeast 814
- that thunders 809
- that thunders and 'lightens' 813
- that travels northwards 777
- that turns back 814
- the !khau frustrates it 613
- the !khau lizard and the rain–clouds 613
- the 'Water's things' 613
- the actions of 640, 1066
- the clouds are its hair 274
- the colours of 275
- the coming of 1066
- the consequences of eating 746
- the cutting of 275
- the direction it travels 777
- the eating of its things 794
- the education of children concerning 852
- the gender of 640
- the girl of the Early Race who killed its children 748
- the girl who snaps her fingers at her parents and the rain 509
- the hail is its 'legs' 640
- the hearts of dead sorcerers fall as rain into waterpits 493
- the hunting of 746
- the lion makes it fall 449
- the maiden's story; the frog's story 375
- the making of 811
- the Makoba say they see a rainbow 1103
- the Moon and the Hare and |xue 1057
- the mother-rain 274
- the names of clouds 814
- the names of rain-clouds 690
- the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- the new maiden who is carried off by, and becomes a frog 360
- the noise of 655
- the old man's address to 852
- the part that comes out of the clouds is called its tail 809
- the people ask for 274, 456
- the people ask for a 'fine' 639
- the people ask it to turn back 452
- the people fear an angry rain 274
- the people fear its things 740
- the place where it 'lightens' and kills 531
- the porcupine's flesh is its legs 453
- the properties of female rain 274
- the properties of male rain which is undesirable 274
- the qualities of different kinds of 640
- the Rain 375, 453, 580, 746, 748, 852
- the Rain is ridden by sorcerers 865
- the rain's great skin, ribs, legs, hair, blood, milk, breath 274
- the rain's liquid 274
- the rain's wind 274
- the Rain, the Water, the spring 360
- the rain-bull 274, 393
- the rain-cow and bull 274
- the rainmaker 275
- the rainmaker, !nuin-|kui-ten 456
- the riding of 865
- the rituals and actions performed when addressing 452
- the season of 814
- the she- 640
- the shooting of 746
- the swallow is its thing 521
- the thing that comes out of the clouds 809
- the Water 375, 411
- the water tortoise, or !khou, is its thing 582
- the Water's children killed and eaten by the new maiden 375
- the Water's spring 375
- the water's things 737
- the wind is underneath it 591
- the wind of female rain 274
- the wind that brings 592
- the wind that turns it back 593
- the work done with 591
- the work of sorcerers with waterbulls 493
- the work with waterbull 395
- the young man's speech to 453
- things that anger 356
- things that cause its wrath 411
- throwing stones at 737
- transforms maidens into flowers and stars 531
- transforms new maidens 360
- transforms people 453
- transforms people into frogs 746
- transforms the girl and her people into frogs 748
- transforms the people and their things 737
- transforms their things 748
- types of 274
- want of rain 596
- wants to kill people when angry 737
- was formerly an eland 746
- was shot by a man of the Early Race 746
- washes out a dead man's footsteps 879
- weak 809
- what girls do when it falls 737
- what happens when it is angry 509, 510
- what makes it angry 817
- what old women say about 817
- what the people drink is called its legs 809
- what the people say to gentle 809
- what the people say to it when it thunders and does not fall 809
- what the people say to make it fall 811
- what the white men call it 852
- what the |xam call it 852
- what |han≠kass'o's grandmothers used to tell him about ≠kagara and !haunu 901
- what |han≠kass'o's relations told him about 852
- when 'big' falls hard 655
- when 'liquid' falls gently 655
- when angry 453
- when angry it 'makes war' 816
- when it does not come 613
- when it falls gently 452
- when new maidens scold 452
- when the rain-sorcerer unloosens his thong 865
- when thundering, 'sounds hollowly' 852
- when ≠kagara and !haunu fight in the east 901
- which carried away houses, people, animals and things in Victoria West 812
- which comes angrily 813
- which kills people 812
- why the chameleon must not be killed 356
- wind, weather and springbok hunting 701
- wishes to kill people 509
- women say 'Fall into the water!' 1010
- Xaa-ttin prays for 456
- [not translated] 783
- |han≠kass'o's grandfather Tsatsi's address to 852
- |kannu the rainmaker created locusts 638
- |kannu, the 'Rain's man' 276
- |xue and a woman 1055
- |xue and the bam-bam, and as other things 1062
- ||kabbo's dream of 214
- ||kum'm or rain-clouds 1066
- ≠kagara and !haunu 900

rain's animals
- are 'thrown' at people by the rain 740
- are the rain's meat 740
- cobra 740
- great water tortoise 740
- puffadder 740
- the people fear 740
- tortoise 740

rain's thing
- or !khoa ka ||kerri-ssi !kau 581, 582
- the !khau lizard and the rain–clouds 613
- the !khau or Agama lizard is one 613
- the caterpillar |khuken-|u |unu 581
- the water tortoise, or !khou, is 582
- water's things 613

rain's things
- a description of 580
- are not eaten 580
- are poisonous 580
- are water's things 580
- avoidance behaviour relating to 580
- bite and kill people 580
- customs relating to 580
- its animals 580
- killing of 356
- live in the water 580
- of |han≠kass'o's country 580
- one called |khuken-|u |unu 580
- or !khoa ka ||kerri-ssi !kau 580
- prohibitions against killing 356
- prohibitions relating to 580
- the actions of 580
- the chameleon is one of 356
- the colour of 580
- the consequences of eating 580
- the names of 580
- the rain's animals 356
- the treatment of 580
- water's things 580
- why the chameleon must not be killed 356

Rain-bull
- and Rainmaking 125
- and the Rain 125
- flesh of is cut up 125
- horns of 125
- killing of 125
- led by Rain-sorcerers 125
- Rain animal 125
- Water cow 125
- Water-bull 125
- work of the Rain-sorcerer and 125

rain-bull
- and the broken string 460
- and what Xaa-ttin used to sing 460
- pictured in rock painting copy no. 8 809
- pictured in the clouds 809
- the rain and 809
- the thing that 'lies above' 809

rain-clouds
- 'wax green' 816
- a fire made to disperse or divide 813
- are rain's legs and hair 274
- dispersing 813
- horns are burnt to divide and disperse 816
- of the darkness's rain 813
- or ||kum'm 1062
- |xue and the bam-bam, and as other things 1062

rain-making
- a version by Dia!kwain 393
- and a painting copied by Mr J.M. Orpen 393
- rainmakers lead out a waterbull and kill it 393

rain-sorcerer
- brings clouds 911
- called |kaunu 911
- called ||kunn, and two of his children 777
- commands the rain 911
- known by |han≠kass'o 911
- or !gixa 911
- rainmaker 777, 911
- strikes the bowstring and brings rain 911

Rain-sorcerers
- see Rainmaker 125

rain-sorcerers
- dead people are those who rode the Rain 865
- Rain is possessed by 865
- unloosen their thong and bring heavy rain 865

rainbow
- 'lies above' 632
- accounting for the colours of 632
- and the rain 632
- and |kaggen and |kwammana 632
- its 'place' 632
- its name 632
- the 'above' part 632
- the 'underneath' part 632
- the appearance of 632
- the colour of its parts 632
- the parts of 632
- the |kwammana's house is 269
- what people call it 632
- what the Makoba say when they see one and the rain falls 1103
- where it is found 632
- |kaggen and |kwammana inhabit 632
- |kaggen lies above it 632
- |kaggen's house is above 269
- |kwammana and |kaggen can be seen in it 632
- |kwammana lies underneath it 632

Rainmaker
- 'killing place' of 125
- 'medicine men' 125
- 'Water's medicine men' 125
- 'Water's people' and 125
- and magic 125
- and Rainmaking 125, 125
- and the thong 125
- conjure water 125
- kill the Rain-bull 125
- lead the Rain-bull 125
- or Rain-sorcerers 125
- place of 125
- promise Rain 125
- Rain- 125
- Rainmaking and 125
- respect for 125
- treatment of 125
- warn people 125
- work magic 125
- work of 125, 125

rainmaker
- !nuin-|kui-ten 456
- !nuin-|kui-ten who was a sorcerer or magician 458
- 'Rain-man' 275
- a lament about 459
- a rain 'medicine man' 274
- a song about !nuin-|kui-ten 459
- ancestors 456
- and a story of rainmaking told to ||kabbo by a rainmaker 275
- and how Xaa-ttin asked the dead magician !nuin-|kui-ten for rain 456
- and rain 274
- and rainmaking 456
- and the broken string 459, 460
- and what Xaa-ttin used to sing 460
- breaks rain's ribs 274
- called !nuin-|kui-ten 459
- called |kannu 275
- called |kannu created locusts and gave them to the people 638
- called ||kunn, and two of his children 777
- causes a 'killing', makes killing rain 275
- cuts or makes rain 274
- cuts out rain's blood 274
- cuts rain 275
- dead 456
- death of 459
- grandfather 275
- hear when people call 456
- his anger with people 274
- leads the rain-bull 460
- magicians 456
- makes a female rain which is desirable 274
- milks she-rain 274
- name of 275
- old one 275
- people ask them for rain 456
- prayers to 456
- rain- 456
- rain-man 274
- rain-sorcerer 777
- rain–sorcerer 639
- rides rain 274
- sorcerers and locusts 638
- speaks so rain may fall 274
- the actions of 456
- the dead sorcerer !nuin-|kui-ten 460
- the doings of 274
- the old man who makes rain 274
- the power of dead 456
- the rituals performed by 274
- |kannu 639

rainmakers
- !giten 393, 394, 395
- about sorcerers and their work 493
- address the rain 578, 811
- address the rain so it will fall gently 811
- and a rain story 395
- and broken thong 395
- and catching and leading of the waterbull 395
- and falling stars 491, 493
- and Kko-kkorro's story 394
- and rain's things 521
- and rainmaking 393, 394
- and remarks concerning copies of Bushman pictures nos. I-XXIV 578
- and respect for magic things 521
- and the north wind 591
- and the rain's things 578
- and the rain's wind 591
- and the story of Kki-a-||ken 521
- and the story of the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- and thong 395
- and waterbull 395
- ask for a gentle rain 811
- break the rain's ribs 591
- criticism of 395
- death of 491
- enter people as swallows 521
- grasp the rain 591
- kill people 521
- lead and kill waterbull 393
- lead the rain with magic 452
- old men 811
- or rain-sorcerers 528
- or sorcerers 521
- possess their noses 452
- rain sorcerers 393
- rain-sorcerers 395, 811
- rainmaking, when the wind is in the north 591
- rain–sorcerers 452, 578, 591
- respecting 393
- sing the story of the Rain and the maiden 452
- sorcerers 491
- teach people to help them 395
- teachings about 528
- that are real sorcerers 395
- the consequences of angering 528
- the name of one who dreams of rain 811
- the people's treatment of 393
- the rainmaker ||kunn 528
- their dreams of rain 811
- their hearts fall as rain into waterpits 493
- their work 393, 395, 528
- their work with the rain 578, 591
- their work with waterbulls 493
- unsuccessful 395
- use buchu 395
- water's people 393
- when they die 493
- who are old 395
- who dream of an angry rain 811
- who lose waterbull 395
- who possess or make rain 528

rainmaking
- a description of 591
- and Kko-kkorro's story 394
- and leading of waterbull 394
- and remarks concerning copies of Bushman pictures nos. I-XXIV 578
- and the broken string 460
- and the dead sorcerer !nuin-|kui-ten 460
- and the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- and what Xaa-ttin used to sing 460
- and work of rainmakers 394, 591
- at |han≠kass'o's place 777
- by sorcerers or Rainmakers 452
- by the !gixa or rain–sorcerer called |kaunu known by |han≠kass'o 911
- by the rain-sorcerers 591
- by ||kunn the rainmaker or rain-sorcerer 777
- in |han≠kass'o's country 777
- making rain–clouds appear and the rain break 911
- rainmakers address the rain 578
- rainmakers and the rain's things 578
- rainmakers work with the rain 578
- striking the bowstring 911
- when the wind is in the north 591

Rain–bull
- comes out of the water-pit 741
- is one of the Rain's things 741
- is the Rain's body 741
- or the xoro gwai 741
- the young woman carried off by the Rain, in the shape of 741
- the young woman rides the Rain in the form of one 741

rain–clouds
- the !khau lizard and 613
- the !khau must descend the Driedoorn tree so that they will bring rain, and springbok 613

rain–sorcerers
- address the rain 811
- address the rain so it will fall gently 811
- ask for a gentle rain 811
- old men 811
- rainmakers 811
- the name of one who dreams of rain 811
- their dreams of rain 811
- who dream of an angry rain 811

Ratel
- accounting for appearance of the ratel 403
- and the girls of the Early Race 821
- fights Tortoise 403
- his claws decay 403
- his story 403
- is angry with the girls and kills them 821
- is deceived by Great Tortoise 403
- is foolish and does not understand 403
- is trapped by and stuck fast in Tortoise's neck folds 403
- lies ill 403
- Mellivora 403
- or !khou 821
- sings and dances 821
- smells unpleasant 821
- the girls clap their hands while he dances 821
- the honey badger 403
- the story of the Ratel and the Waterskilpad 403
- was formerly a man of the Early Race 821

ratel
- and the story of the Ratel and the Waterskilpad 404
- honey badger 404
- Mellivora 404
- the Ratel was formerly a man of Early Race 404
- why it is like a man 404
- why it resembles a man 404

rebuke
- Ichneumon's of |kaggen for his ill deeds 241
- Ichneumon's, of |kaggen 269

red ants
- depicted in paintings 771
- in chipping no. 4 771

reed
- 'cuts' a cold 793
- -pieces are burnt in the fire 793
- are threaded on a ligament 793
- bamboo 773
- made into a necklace 793
- necklace of, used as a remedy 793
- the Dutch call it bamboes 773
- the healing properties of 793
- the white men call it 'Bambush' 773
- used in a necklace 793
- used to beat |gui-an 773
- used to cure a child's cold 793
- which new maiden drinks through 360
- |xam name for the Bambush 773

reeds
- and arrow-making 851
- and lions 260
- and the making of the arrow-shaft 851
- and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara 862
- and the straightening of arrows 851
- are 'worked' with 851
- are bitten and divided 855
- are collected in a net 851
- are cut 851
- are divided 851
- are hidden 851
- are made straight 851
- are put in porcupine's hole 851
- are rubbed with |kuai juice 851
- are scraped using a knife 851
- are straightened using the !kui, or digging-stick stone 851
- cut deeply 796
- cut people 796
- methods of cutting and skinning with 855
- the 'mouth' is cut 851
- the cutting power of 796
- used for cutting 796
- used for cutting meat 855
- where !ko'-g !nuin-tara lives when she becomes a Lynx 862

relations
- and genealogies of |xam 30
- burial and avenging a death 1114
- how the son-in-law talks to his wife's parents 934
- names of 30, 146
- of contributors 30
- of |xam 30
- of |xam prisoners 146
- terms used that indicate relationships 935
- the actions of those of the deceased 1114
- the burial party 1114
- through marriage 934
- what people call their 935
- ||kabbo's 166
- ||kabbo's account of being caught and brought to the Breakwater 166

relationship
- by marriage 922
- given by |han≠kass'o 922
- names for relations 922
- terms of 922

relationships
- and in-laws 924
- by marriage 924
- terms for the degrees of 924
- terms used by men or women 935
- terms used for relations of different genders and ages 935

remedy
- of the |xam for healing spider bites 9

respect
- a man respects his wife's mother 1079
- and !kun treatment of thieves 1082
- and !nanna-sse 707
- and address used for in-laws 1079
- and address used for in-laws or men 1080
- and burial 993
- and ceremonies in cutting up eland 478
- and fear for the dead 993
- and food avoidances 975
- and Mr Stow's picture of the dance of sorcerers 434
- and rain-making 393
- and Ssa ka Kumm 475
- and stars and death 531
- and swallows 521
- and the owl, believed to foretell the coming of the lion 827
- avoidance of the name of the lion 421
- avoiding playing with or mocking the !koroken !koroken's name 562
- children not to play with Ttanno !khauken's name 436
- children taught not to play with a sorcerer's name 436
- children taught to use another name for the lion 423
- eating the |no 1070
- for and treatment of the porcupine's bones 733
- for bones and successful hunting 713
- for certain animals which are not eaten 975
- for lizards found near graves 1101
- for locusts 638, 915
- for locusts and locust birds 523
- for magic things 497, 521, 523
- for names of spirit-animals 1101
- for rainmakers 393
- for son-in-laws 1079, 1080
- for sorcerers 436
- for sorcerers and their things 521
- for spirit-animals 1101
- for spirit-antelope 1101
- for swallows that are rain's things 521
- for the !ke tsa'ba bird which is not eaten by the !kun 973
- for the !koroken !koroken bird 562
- for the dead man 993
- for the eland and observances of the !kun 1076
- for the eland and |kaggen's things 478
- for the eland which is a 'magic thing' 478
- for the elephant's heart 1006
- for the game 707, 714, 807
- for the game and avoiding wounds 713
- for the game; springbok 709
- for the lion 1064
- for the lion and its name 421
- for the lion's name 423
- for the lion, the fly and the owl 827
- for the locust bird or ||kerri 916
- for the name of a man who has killed another 1094
- for the names of the dead 1082
- for the rain 531
- for the rain's things 411, 521
- for the rain's things or !khoa ka ||kerri-ssi !kau 580
- for the snake found near the grave 1101
- for the snake which announces a death in the family 1100
- for the |no 1070
- for |kaggen's things 471
- girls and youths must avoid the rain's things 411
- in the !kun family 1080
- laughing at sorcerers in the ||ken dance is prohibited 434
- of names 1079, 1082
- of Tamme's people for the mantis 1060
- of the !kun for the ||hin snake 1100
- of the mother-in-law's name 1079
- of the star for the Sun 1083
- of women for the divining pieces 1050
- picking the locust up properly 638
- preserving the locust's legs 638
- showing, for the game 471
- shown to the eland 475
- shown to |kaggen's or magic things 475
- slaying of a white springbok will cause the others to disappear 807
- sorcerers watch how people treat magic things 497
- springbok possess magic arrows 709
- teaching of 521
- terms of 1079, 1080
- the bad consequences of beating the kaross on the ground 497
- the coming of |kaggen foretells the shooting of a hartebeest 471
- the consequences of 'playing' with the springbok's skin and bones 709
- the consequences of eating respected animals 975
- throwing stones at locusts prohibited 915
- treatment of the |kaggen 471
- Tsatsi's treatment of bones 713
- what people call out to the locust 638
- what the lion says, a song 1064
- what the man says while cleansing himself 1094
- |han≠kass'o and ||hoaken !khe were told by Tsatsi not to throw them at locusts 915
- |kaggen and the hunting of eland 476
- |kaggen tests people's respect for the eland 476
- |xam fear sorcerers 436
- ||kabbo's treatment of bones 714

respecting
- the Moon 874
- the Moon not to be laughed at 874

resurrection
- and a prayer addressed to the Moon 464
- and Moon and Hare story 464
- and the creation of death 332
- and the death of |xue 1039
- and the Moon and the Hare 332
- and the Moon and the Hare and the origin of death 114
- and the mother Hare 66
- and the origins of death 464
- by |kaggen 765
- how people were once reborn, like the Moon 464
- how the Blue Crane vainly sought for !kuommain |ka ||kau and was killed and eaten by the Lions 925
- of animals 66
- of male ostriches 913
- of people 66
- of the children killed by the !kwai !kwai 765
- of the Long-nosed Mice 753
- of the Moon 66, 114
- of the Moon who lives again 332, 464
- of the Ostrich 66
- of |kaggen's son, !gaunu-tsaxau 666
- of |xue 1036, 1038, 1039, 1045
- of |xue's father 1045
- of |xue's wife 1045
- people must return to life after dying 114
- the Blue Crane is restored to life by means of one of |kaggen's bones 925
- the Blue Crane returns to life in the water 925
- the Moon and the little Hare 66
- the Moon's message about 114
- the people wish to resemble the Moon and live again 464
- |kaggen anoints his son's eye with his perspiration 666
- |xue and his father 1039
- |xue and his mother and father 1038
- |xue dies and changes form 1038
- |xue dies and returns to life 1038
- |xue had not died altogether 1045
- |xue rises up and changes form 1036
- |xue's father returns to life because he is |xe ||n'u and does not die outright 1045
- |xue's wife comes to life at sunset 1045
- |xue, his father and changes 1036

revenge
- and children taught to use another name for the lion 423
- of the lion on the hunting ground 423
- of the Tortoise on the Lion 123
- the Hyena's 843
- the Jackal's and the Hyena's on the Day's Heart child's mother, the Lynx 256
- the Lions, the Tortoise, the little Hare and the old woman 123

Rhebok
- and the Black Crow 772
- and the two Lions, the Lizards, the Blue Crane and the Black Crow 772
- and ||horu 772
- called |ke-dde 772
- deceives the Lion 772
- escapes from Lions 772
- her name when a person 772
- is the wife of the |gi 772
- of the Early Race 772
- or 'Rhebuck' 772
- stones move and cover 772

Rhinoceros
- a person of the Early Race 798
- of the Early Race 622
- the She- 622
- the She-Rhinoceros and her elder daughter's suitors 622
- the song of the Mother- 798

rhinoceros
- !kun name of 1063, 1063
- animals eaten by the !kun 1063, 1063
- black 1063
- white 1063

rhyme
- a |xam 202
- or 'spelletje' 202
- poetry 202

ribs
- rainmakers break the rain's 591
- rainmaking, when the wind is in the north 591
- the rain's 591

riem
- a thong 401
- and |kaggen turning into a hartebeest 101
- eye-thong 101
- how the Jackal deceived the Hyena 401
- in the hartebeest's eye 101
- made of mouse-entrails 401
- thong 101
- |kaggen's 101

river
- and Day's Heart star's discourse 262, 266
- and information obtained from Blaitje Snell and Daoud Moos 304
- and rain 274
- and the Jackal's speech 266
- and |kaggen turning into a hartebeest 101
- Day's Heart 45
- Har 289
- Har River 274
- Har Rivier 101
- in |han≠kass'o's country 780
- Klein Haartrivier 101
- Little Har 262
- Little Hart River 45
- name of 101, 274
- Sack 304
- the Har 244, 266
- the Orange 860
- with a dry bed 780

rivers
- Groot 260
- Hart 260
- Orange 260

rock art
- a copy of a rock painting 806
- and Dia!kwain's father's drawings 473
- at Grey Library 578
- chipping no. 4 771
- chippings made by Dia!kwain's father 554
- copied by Col. Durnfold in the Drakensberg 801, 802, 809
- copies of Bushman pictures nos. I-XXIV collected by Mr H.C. Schunke 578
- Dia!kwain's explanation of Stow's picture no. 2 527
- explanation of Mr G. Stow's picture no. 1 513
- explanation of Stow's picture no. 3 529
- explanations of 578
- mat sieves 771
- Mr Orpen's picture of sorcerers 560
- no. 2 of Mr G.W. Stow’s collection of copies of Bushman paintings 527
- no. 3 of Mr Stow’s copies of Bushman paintings 529
- no. 9 of the rock paintings copied by Col. Durnfold in the Drakensberg 810
- notes on no.'s 5-7 of the rock paintings copied by Col. Durnfold in the Drakensberg 806
- notes on rock painting copy no. 3 802
- Orpen's copies of Bushman paintings 560
- paintings of animals 578
- picturing !nu'sa and other groups 801
- rock painting copy no. 2 801
- rock painting copy no. 8: the rain and the rain-bull 809
- Stow's illustrations number 8 and 9 434
- told in illustration of the picture of the dance of sorcerers 434
- tto dots 771
- |han≠kass'o's explanation of 806, 810
- |han≠kass'o's remarks concerning 578

rocks
- and Dia!kwain's father's drawings 473

rooi klip
- an illustration of 771
- dots are painted with to resemble the hunting leopard 771
- in chipping no. 4 771
- is painted on the forehead 771
- methods of painting with 771
- red haematite 771
- tto 771

root
- !huin 285
- and creation of stars 285
- and girl of Early Race 285
- and the girl who made the Milky Way 285
- called 'Leuuwhoud' and other preparations used for curing illness 344
- colours of and the colours of the stars 285
- name of 285
- water which has 'one' 1068

roots
- the new maiden who threw !huin into the sky creating the stars 658

Ruyter
- and Jan Plat, his brother 539
- his death 539
- his personal history 539

sack
- a man carries away the ostrich in 15
- a man hides from a Lion under 24
- bag 15
- for collecting food 163
- for collecting ostrich eggs 159
- of hartebeest skin 38
- of springbok skin 24, 45
- springbok skin 159, 163, 173
- the Day's Heart's 45
- used in hunting hare 173
- |kaggen and !goe !kweitentu 38
- |kaggen's 'hartebeest children' 38

saliva
- a girl's 285
- a new maiden's 285
- and a ceremony performed by maidens so that their father's dogs should hunt well 507
- and hunting of game 285
- and Ssho |oa 314
- and the girl who made the Milky Way 285
- and what the man does when he digs some out of the ground 314
- in springbok flesh 285
- maiden feeds the dog her 507
- of the new maiden 507
- spat by the man into the Ssho |oa's hole 314
- the new maiden spits into the dog's mouth 507

salutation
- according to times of the day 936
- and greetings among the |xam 936
- used by those who are not comfortable 936

salutations
- and greetings to the sun 167

sauko
- a !kun song about 966
- a description of 966
- bird 966
- eats small buck 966
- its song 966
- the diet and habits of 966

scarification
- and cutting 309, 316
- and cutting in the cleansing ritual 1094
- and digging for Ssho |oa 316
- and how Korannas and the |xam cut themselves to shoot well 311
- and hunting 309
- and Ssho |oa 309, 316
- and the ignorant man who digs up Ssho |oa 316
- and what the man says while cleansing himself 1094
- bloodletting 1071
- cutting 1071
- cutting 'in the old mark' 1094
- cutting between the eyebrows 1094
- cutting of the hunter 716
- done by women 716
- Korannas cut the back of their right wrists 311
- methods of 309
- process of 309
- the cut's wounds 309
- the marks of a Ssho |oa's man 316
- the rituals performed for successful hunting after the death of a companion 716
- with a sharpened arrow-head 716
- |xam cut their hand between the thumb and first finger 311
- ||kabbo didn't have the neccessary marks 316

scent
- and the young woman carried off by the Rain, in the shape of a bull 741
- of buchu 741
- of burnt horns 741
- of ||khou 741
- the Rain's 741
- the young woman's 741

scorpions
- and the |nu'she, the tt' e, and the wind and rain 1077
- behaviour of 1077

screen
- and Tsatsi's treatment of bones 713
- of bushes used in springbok hunting 713

script
- Lloyd's 92
- untranslated, in Bleek's Book XXIV 92

seacow
- 'house' of 20
- about the 20
- doings of 20
- hippopotamus 20
- is a 'water's thing' 20

seasons
- a description of 1074
- and an address or prayer to the stars Canopus and Sirius 322
- and doings of animals 272
- and doings of real ostrich 269
- and doings of things 269
- and finding food 299
- and growth of 'Bushman rice' 299
- and hunting animals 272
- and Ichneumon's discourse 272
- and plants 272
- and stars 272, 320
- and the weather 1074
- five types of berries and roots eaten in winter and summer 766
- food eaten in the different 766
- names of in !nanni and Tamme's country 1074
- summer 269, 272
- the !kun names for 1074
- what the 'Bushman rice' does when the ||xo hai stars come out 320
- winter 272
- winter is new year and hunting season 272

seclusion
- about new maidens 126
- and new maidens 286
- of new maidens in a hut 126
- the treatment of the 'growing' girl 286

seive
- and the Quagga woman eaten by the Baboons 558
- from a mat 558
- the Quagga who made a sieve from her mat 558

Sela
- mother and father 1133
- words given with Piet Lynx and |han≠kass'o 1134

Setswana
- and vocabulary given by Auma 946
- Setshuana 946

sew
- ||kabbo asks for some thread to attach his buttons 248

sewing
- and the making of a needle from a springbok's foreleg 440
- by Flat Bushmen 440
- of karosses 440
- the making of needles 440
- the name of the 'Bushman needle' 440
- with a European needle 440
- with a needle made from the springbok's foreleg-bone 440

shade
- and an eclipse of the sun 873
- mist is the sun's 873
- sitting in, and the weather 463

shadow
- and how children do not say the lion's name at night 829
- cast by ||khwai-hemm resembles a cloud 788
- of the lion's head at night 829
- |kaggen and ||khwai-hemm 788

shadows
- and earthquakes 525
- and sorcerers 525
- and when invisible sorcerers can see people and stab them 525
- bush- 768
- can kill people 525
- cast by the Lion's head and ears 768
- different kinds of 768
- eclipse of the sun and 89
- head- 768
- must not fall on other people in the early morning 525
- of head 89
- of head-hair 89
- prohibitions relating to 475
- the casting of 475
- the throwing of 525
- time of day and 89
- what people say to 768
- when they are unfortunate 525

share
- |kaggen does not 667
- |ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen 667

sharing
- and distributing porcupine meat 736
- and distribution of the porcupine's meat 730
- and dividing food 668
- and the little porcupine 730
- burial and avenging a death 1114
- of food 730
- of tobacco 1114
- or distribution of porcupine meat 731
- or dividing 'Bushman rice' 659
- tobacco with strangers 1114
- various foods and the protection of the rain for a fungus 668
- |kaggen and Koro-tuiten 659
- |kaggen does not share his 'Bushman-rice' with Koro-tuiten 659

She-Rhinoceros
- 'makes dust' 622
- and her elder daughter's suitors 622
- and the cowardly suitors 622
- and the Silver Fox 622
- causes fights 622
- chases away the Hyena 622
- chases away the Jackal 622
- gets angry 622
- gives food to her younger daughter 622
- her actions 622
- her elder daughter is !kwa !khe 622
- her horns 622
- her two daughters 622
- her younger daughter is Driving Away, or Ssuai-ssuai-||a-|uhan 622
- is 'a fight's thing' 622
- is beaten by her elder daughter 622
- keeps the sharp real horn in her hut 622
- makes the people afraid 622
- puts on her short horn 622
- sings out 'My daughter's little husband' 622
- tests the bravery of the suitors 622
- throws earth at the Leopard's legs 622

sheep
- 'Boer' names for 144
- and ||kabbo's account of being caught and brought to the Breakwater 166
- belonging to the Ticks 787
- description of 144
- eating magistrate's 166
- shepherded by ||goo-ka-!kui 646
- that make their way home alone 646
- the names of different types of 646
- the Ticks hide in their wool 787
- their nature and habits 646
- |kaggen and the Ticks 787
- |kaggen takes away those belonging to the Tick's 293

sheep fat
- the sending of the Crows with 120
- tied on Crow's neck 120

shelter
- a house of bushes 386
- a strong one or hut must be made before the Wind's name is called 644
- and the son of the Wind 644
- and |kua ka khumm's story 386
- for old woman on pan 386
- the making of 386

shelters
- and modes of addressing rain 815
- and the coming of rain 815
- are made by men 681
- of bushes in springbok hunting 701
- the building of 815
- the making or building of 681
- the name of 681
- wind, weather and springbok hunting 701

Shimbari
- names of things belonging to 1019
- people in !kun country 1019

sho sho
- a !kun song about 952
- bird 952
- description of 952

shoe
- 'veldschoen' 39, 243
- and origin of Moon 205
- becomes an eland 207
- becomes Moon 218
- eland created from |kwammana's 624
- language of 66
- made out of animal skins 8
- making of 39
- making veldskoen 8
- or veldskoen 205
- speaks 218
- the Moon and the little Hare and 66
- veldskoen 8, 39
- worn by the |xam 39
- worn by |xam 8
- |kaggen and the Moon 37
- |kaggen calls eland '|kwammana's shoes' 624
- |kaggen makes an eland from 624
- |kaggen pretends he has left one of his veldschoens behind and becomes a Lion 243
- |kaggen's 205, 218
- |kaggen's veldskoen 37, 66, 243
- |kaggen, his wife and their things 218
- |kwammana's 207

shoes
- and gemsbok 272
- and Ichneumon's discourse 272
- and the monster ||khwai-hemm's speech 88
- and ≠kasin's hunting adventures 349
- veldskoen worn for hunting 349
- worn by |xam 272
- |kaggen's 88

shooting
- a charm for causing another to miss their aim 674
- an explanation of the !hau-!hau 674
- and cutting rituals 311
- and how Korannas and the |xam cut themselves 311
- and hunting 311
- and hunting, preparing and eating of ostrich, 'chiansbok', springbok, khoran, hare and jackal 163
- and the use of arrows 801
- by |xam 311
- methods employed by different groups of people 801
- of people 311
- of springbok 311
- rituals surrounding 311
- rock painting copy no. 2 801
- well 311
- |xam cut their hand between the thumb and first finger 311

Shrew
- and Anteater's laws 198

sickness
- about new maidens and 126
- dropsy 126
- illness 126
- people become water 126

sieve
- a thing called !yuiten belonging to the Early Race of Bushmen 861
- for flour or meal 564
- for sifting 'Bushman rice' 771
- in chipping no. 4 771
- made from a mat 564
- mat 771
- Quagga makes flour 564
- the Quagga's 564
- used for sifting !haken 861

signals
- and avoidance of the name of the lion 421
- are sent so that people at home can see them 800
- earth thrown up into the air as 800
- given by men returning home from the hunt 800
- hand gestures performed when indicating lions 421
- on the hunting-ground 800
- sent by men dying of exhaustion and heat 800
- the sending of 800
- when they are needed 800
- with dust 800

signs
- as indicators of direction 859
- left for the man who misses the house 859
- left for those left behind 859
- left so a man will not 'go astray' 859
- left so the man can find his people 859
- made in the ground with the foot 859
- made on leaving a place 859
- marks made in the earth 859
- pieces of grass arranged to indicate direction 859
- that people make when they travel to another place 859
- the people can read them 859
- the positioning of branches and sticks 859
- the use of grass stuck in a bush to show direction 859

Silver Fox
- did not pity the suitors 622
- or !gwiten 622
- the She-Rhinoceros and her elder daughter's suitors 622
- throws a stick at the cowardly suitors 622

Silver Jackal
- and Anteater's laws 191, 198
- and its story 191
- habits of 191
- marry own kind 191

sinew
- called |kuirri 203
- called !nui 851
- is wound around the arrow-shaft and coated with poison 851
- Moon's 203, 216
- neck 203
- of the Moon 179
- Sun and Moon story 203
- the Moon and Sun 216
- the Sun pierces the full Moon with his knife 179
- used in making bow strings and musical instruments 308
- used in the making of arrows 851

singing
- and imitating the calls of animals using the throat 561
- by women in ssauken 856
- Jan Plat's aunt Natta sang the ≠gebbi-ggu 561
- the ≠gebbi-ggu 561

Sirius
- !kuttau 321
- a description of 322
- a prayer to 322
- an address to 322
- and Canopus 321
- grandmother 322

skin
- 'petticoat' 6
- a man hides from a Lion under 5
- and purification after shooting a person 1093
- and the making of clay pots 823
- apparition's outer skin looks at people 532
- giraffe-skin bag containing the Hare's divining pieces 1092
- hartebeest 420
- monkey, and !kun dress 1056
- monkey- front aprons worn by !kun 1056
- of leopard, |xue's 1062
- of springbok 5
- of the snake which announces a death in the family 1100
- of the woman transformed into a lion 6
- of the ||hin snake traded with the Makoba 1100
- springbok- 823
- taken off by the apparition 532
- the man to be cleansed sits on his of kudu 1093
- the son of the Wind 644
- the Wind's is cloth 644
- used for pounding the earth to make pots 823
- woman who has a lion's 6
- young man hides in from Lion 420
- |xue and his parents and child 1045
- |xue and his son 1056
- |xue and the bam-bam, and as other things 1062
- |xue's father ties him in one 1045

skinning
- 'flaying' 855
- and cutting 855
- of game 855
- of meat 855
- of springbok 855
- using a stone 855

skins
- and the man who went to sleep when out hunting alone 384
- cat–skin is worn by |ku-te-!gaua 667
- cat–skins are like the west wind 667
- identified by |han≠kass'o in rock painting copy no. 2 801
- of animals used in making veldskoen 8
- of genet, or sua 998
- of weasel, muishond or dda 998
- of ||ko 998
- that of fox, elephant, springbok used for making veldskoen 8
- the man hides from the Lion under 384
- used to make !kun back- and front-dress 998
- worn by people 801
- worn by the !kun for gathering poisons 1053
- |kaggen's cat–skins burn in fire 667
- |ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen 667

sky
- and eclipse of the sun 89
- and what happens when people die 462
- colour of 89
- people become part of the sky after death 462
- swallows and hardens rain's hair 275

sleep
- !gwa !nuntu and the 'Old Woman's' chest 618
- !gwa !nuntu and the Elephants 618
- !kun customs at death 983
- a cautionary tale about falling asleep on the hunting-ground 420
- and 'touching chests' 620
- and bewitchment 620
- and magic 620
- and magic, or bewitchment 618
- and sleepiness 620
- and sleepiness on the hunting-ground 618
- and the 'chest' of strangers 618
- and the approach of strangers 618
- and the broken string 460
- and the ||ua who hypnotises the Koranna commando 761
- and what Xaa-ttin used to sing 460
- in the veld 618
- lions make people sleepy 420
- sleepiness caused by the ||ua or Fox 761
- sleepiness on the hunting-ground 620
- sleeping in ashes 983
- sorcerer's human forms sleeps at home 455
- sorcerers watch over their people in the form of a jackal or of a bird while they 455
- the approach of strangers makes a person sleepy 620
- the people do not on account of the lion 830
- the young man of the Early Race who was carried off by a Lion, when asleep in the field 420
- what the ||ua says to the Koranna commando 761
- when a wild cat changes itself into a lion to kill the slayer 830
- when the lion kills people 830
- Xaa-ttin hears the dead sorcerer !nuin-|kui-ten calling him in his 460

sleeping
- and hunting alone 384
- and magic powers of beasts of prey 384
- and the man who went to sleep when out hunting alone 384
- on hunting ground 384
- warnings about 384

smoke
- and the mist or haze called !kh'o which resembles 498
- from burnt horn divides rain-clouds 816

smoking
- 'Flat Bushmen' are 'smoking's people' 289
- 'Flat Bushmen' smoke and hear stories 289
- a springbok skin is put over the fire to smoke 824
- and purification or |koa 1098
- and sneezing 215
- and strangers 1114
- and tactics in springbok hunting 824
- and the |xam 289
- and ||kabbo's account of being caught and jailed 174
- and ||kabbo's intended return home to Bushmanland 289
- and ||kabbo's personal history 215
- and ||kabbo's song about 'tobacco-hunger' and the loss of his tobacco pouch 604
- burial and avenging a death 1114
- customs relating to 1114
- feathers using the ||kuain plant 824
- loss of ||kabbo's tobacco bag 603
- making a fire and the preparation of ostrich-feather brushes 824
- of Indian Hemp forbidden during purification 1098
- of tobacco during purification 1098
- ostrich feathers 824
- the man fears Indian Hemp and other people's tobacco 1098
- the man smokes only his father's tobacco 1098
- the ||kuain plant is used in 824
- tobacco 166
- using sheep's bones as pipes 166
- ||kabbo 'smoked not' 603
- ||kabbo's capture and journey to Cape Town 166
- ||kabbo's dream of lions which talked 268

snake
- a dead man has a mere spirit as well as other which is a snake 1102
- a description of 1100
- and death 1101
- and death in the family 1100
- and graves 1101
- and mixing arrow poisons 347
- and spirit-animals 1101
- and spirits of the dead 1101
- and the angry Rain 452
- and the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- and the transformation of the new maiden into 452
- and ≠kasin 337
- black 1102
- can be omen of death 1100
- found near a grave 1101
- found near graves is not killed 1101
- gives us 'of its stomach' 1100
- in the water of a tree 1100
- is afraid of a woman's skin necklace 1100
- is angry 337
- is feared and left alone 1101
- is feared and respected 1100
- is like ≠kasin 337
- is not eaten 1100
- is not killed when it lies on its back 1100
- its actions which are signs of impending death 1100
- its name 452
- men become after death 1102
- name of 1101
- of !nanni's country 1100
- of the dead 1100
- people of !nanni's country do not kill one near a grave 1101
- snakes and spirits of the dead 1102
- spirit-animals 1102
- spirit-snakes 1101
- the dead person's 1101
- the dead person's snake 1100
- the meat is thrown away 1100
- the puffadder 347
- the skin is traded with the Makoba 1100
- the women cry when it is seen on its back 1100
- the ||hin 1100
- the ≠in-a 1101
- venom and making poison 223
- when it turns upwards 1100
- when lying on its back announces death 1100
- which is the spirit of the dead man 1101
- women become snakes if they die of snakebite 1102

snakes
- and a foolish or ignorant man 316
- and an ignorant man who digs up Ssho |oa 316
- and arrow-making 851
- and ostrich eggshells that sound when not closed 842
- and scent of Ssho |oa 316
- and the ignorant man who digs up Ssho |oa 316
- depicted in engravings 771
- found near Ssho |oa's hole 316
- get into karosses and bite people 842
- in chipping no. 4 771
- method of driving them away 316
- methods of removing their poison 851
- names of different 820
- ostrich eggshells that are left open attract them 842
- poison from 820
- poison from puffadder, or !guken 820
- poisonous 771, 820
- take away scent of Ssho |oa 316
- teachings about 842
- that are 'strong'; from a 'strong' or a 'bad' place 851
- that bite and kill people on the hunting-ground 820
- the effects of poison from different kinds 820
- the names of 338
- the people never kill Ssho |oa snakes 316
- the people observe the efficacy of their poison 851
- the puffadder, or !guken 851
- their 'gall' 851
- their 'poison bag' 851
- their poison sac membrane 851
- their venom used to make arrow-poisons 851
- used in making of poisons 338
- what old people teach children about them 842
- |xam names of various 851
- ||khwi 820

sneeze
- a belief about sneezing 764
- what people say when they 764

sneezing
- !haunu's 900
- -out of 'harm's things' 782
- -out of -extracted things- 782
- -out of illness's things 782
- -out of sticks 782
- -out of the lion 782
- -out of the owl 782
- a |xam belief about 764
- about sorcerers 396
- about sorcerers or healers 493
- accounting for 764
- affects the dying of the game 515
- and 'snoring' 782
- and a speech made by the sorceress !kwarra-an 397
- and calling a person's name 764
- and doctoring 288
- and healing 288
- and healing by healers or sorcerers 781
- and healing work 396
- and hunting 515
- and hunting observances 515
- and kkoroken, or preventing 515
- and misfortune with hunting 516
- and shooting game 515, 516
- and snoring 288
- and the rain 900
- and the sorcerer's snoring work 493
- and the ||ken dance 530
- and ||kabbo 215
- as portent 215
- as presentiment 215
- at dawn 516
- avoidance behaviour relating to 515, 516
- beliefs about 215
- butterflies and !giten 781
- by the 'Bushman doctor', sorcerer or !gixa 782
- called |kamma 397
- causes misfortune with hunting 515
- destroying the sneeze or kkoroken 516
- directing the contents of the sneeze, or sneezing 'rightly' 397
- drives away the game 515
- from nose of doctor 288
- happens when people say another's name 764
- healing with 397
- in the early morning considered unfortunate 516
- in the morning 515
- into the ears of the hunter 515
- is a bad omen 516
- its ill effects 515
- making it vanish 515
- of illness 397
- of sorcerers 530
- of the Baboon when the girl says his name 767
- out of illness caused by butterflies 781
- rubbing it away 515
- sickness out 288
- the girl, of the Early Race of people, who married a Baboon 767
- the hearing of 515
- the tale of a wise person or sorceress 397
- the use of buchu 782
- to be avoided when game is shot 515
- what comes out afterwards 397
- what is said when it happens 764
- ||kabbo's family are calling his name 215
- ||kabbo's family is talking about him 215
- ≠kagara and !haunu 900

Snore-White-Lying
- advised Dia!kwain 429
- and healing and snoring 428
- and the death of Dia!kwain's first wife 429
- died at the Breakwater Convict Station 428
- explaining the naming of 428
- friend of Dia!kwain 428
- his Dutch name was Witbooi 428
- his mother, the sorceress 428
- his personal history 428, 429
- Ssu-!kui-ten-tta 428

snoring
- 'white lying' 428
- -out lion 782
- -out of other sorcerers 493
- -out owl 782
- -out sticks 782
- -work 717
- a description of 397, 782
- a speech made by the sorceress !kwarra-an 397
- about sorcerers and their work 396
- and breathing 288
- and death 782
- and healing 400
- and nasal blood 493
- and sneezing 288, 782
- and sneezing out of nostrils 781
- and spirit-people 493
- and the 'springbok's thing' 720
- and the naming of Ssu-!kui-ten-tta or Snore-White-Lying 428
- by a healer or sorcerer 781
- by old women 717
- by the 'Bushman doctor', sorcerer or !gixa 782
- causes a person's heart to 'fall' 720
- doctoring 288
- good and bad 397
- healing 288, 397, 720, 722
- healing by 428
- methods of 397, 782
- observed by |han≠kass'o 782
- of 'good–looking' people 720
- of a person possessed by a sorcerer 493
- of bewitchment by sorcerers 717
- of butterflies 781
- of illness caused by butterflies 781
- of illness caused by sorcerers who are like lions 720
- of the girls cursed by |kuken-|u |unu 722
- of the really ill 782
- of |han≠kass'o 781
- or healing 717
- out of 'harm's things' 782
- out of sorcerer's arrow 717
- out the sorcerer's arrow wounds 720
- out things 717
- performed by Ssu-!kui-ten-tta's mother 428
- power 397
- sickness out 288
- sorcerers kill people while they are being 'snored' 720
- successful and unsuccessful 782
- taking out 782
- taking things out 720
- the ritual performed by the sorcerer 493
- the sick 288
- the sorceress who snored Dia!kwain's injured throat 400
- the sounds made when 782
- the tale of a wise person or sorceress 397
- the use of buchu 782
- the wound of possession 493
- without a kaross 428
- –work of sorcerers 493

snuff
- a |xam opinion of taking it 846
- how it is harmful 846
- its ill-effects 846
- makes a person's brain 'disappear' 846
- makes a person's head become 'dry' 846
- tobacco eats away the brain 846
- what the |xam say about 846

solitude
- people who dwell in 283

son
- the son of |kaggen, the Baboons, and |kaggen 666
- |kaggen's is !gaunu-tsaxau 666
- |xue and his 1056

son of the Wind
- 'shoots' 645
- and the blowing of the Wind 644
- and |na ka ti who called his name 644
- became a bird 645
- blows dust 644
- blows strongly 644
- calling his name 644
- flies around 645
- his actions 644, 645
- his mother 644
- his mother raises him up 644
- inhabits a hole in the mountain 645
- is a person 645
- lies down 644
- lies kicking violently and making dust 644
- rolls a ball of ||kuarra 644, 645
- the transformation of 645
- was formerly a man 645
- was formerly silent 644
- was the Wind 644
- why the Wind stops blowing 644

son-in-law
- how he treats his parents-in-law 934
- what he says to his wife's parents 934

song
- !gaunu sings that the ≠ku yam is the one that opens 517
- !gaunu's naming of the stars 505
- !gaunu's to the flowers and stars 517
- !gaunu's to the Star 517
- 'Be quickly flying' 622
- 'The lizard lies on the thorn tree' 906
- a dance performed by the 'Grass Bushmen' 804
- a woman's 908
- about the !koaor Muishond who ate his own flesh 692
- about the broken string 459, 460
- about the dead sorcerer !nuin-|kui-ten 460
- and further details of the men who hunted Lions with bones 759
- and stars and flowers 517
- and the death of the !khau 696
- and the Early Race 691
- and the Lizard, the Mice and |kaggen 906
- and the monster ||khwai-hemm's speech 88
- and the old man, the Hare and the party of Lions 566
- and the Quagga who was poisoned by her husband 894
- Black Crow calling Jackal 49
- Cat's 211, 240
- for drawing out cats 667
- given by !nanni 954, 973
- given by !nanni and Tamme 952, 953
- given by Tamme 965, 966, 969, 970, 971, 977, 978, 979, 981
- how it is sung 691
- in which the call of the ostrich is imitated by men 804
- in ||kabbo's 'thoughts' 85
- incantation to the Moon and stars 14
- invented by Tamme 967
- Jan Plat's aunt Natta sang the ≠gebbi-ggu 561
- movements performed while singing and dancing 798
- of 'tobacco-hunger' 604
- of Blue Crane 49
- of Moon 203
- of the !kan ||ka ||karashe 954
- of the !ke tsa'ba bird 973
- of the !khau 696
- of the !khau or Agama lizard 906
- of the !khau's child 691
- of the !khau's child to the scrap of 'liver' 678
- of the !korro-ssin !ku or 'Pit-making Bushmen' 977
- of the !kun 952, 953, 954, 965, 966, 969, 970, 971, 973, 976, 977, 978, 979, 981
- of the !na !na'rishe 978
- of the Baboon to the girl 767
- of the Blue Crane 85
- of the Caama Fox 86
- of the Cat 305
- of the Early Race 85
- of the First Bushmen 85, 692
- of the Heron 85
- of the kwa kwara or korhaan malkop 605, 606
- of the man who hunted Lions with bones 756, 759
- of the mother of the little buck 969
- of the Mother Rhinoceros 798
- of the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- of the Ngogan-a, or little bird 971
- of the old man who escapes the Lions 567
- of the old people 85
- of the Quagga's children when their mother is poisoned 894
- of the sauko bird 966
- of the sho sho 952
- of the Springbok mothers 893
- of the young woman about how her nipple is trapped in the 'cleft's mouth' 929
- of the young woman who disobeyed her mother and fell in with the two Lions 929, 932
- of the younger brother's family 759
- of the |kam-ssin !ku 976
- of the ||gani 979
- of the ||ku 953
- of the ||noruko djo-djo 967
- of the ≠na≠n'arro, or chameleon 970
- of the ≠ne≠nebbi, or woodpigeon 965
- old woman's 87
- or incantation to 'Kleine Jackals' 142
- or verse 1064
- poetry 85, 87, 518, 691, 798
- rainmakers sing the story of the Rain and the maiden 452
- Sun and Moon story 203
- sung 'with the mouth' 691
- sung by !nanni 959
- sung by men and women 85
- sung by the She-Rhinoceros' younger daughter, Driving Away 622
- sung by the She-Rhinoceros, 'My daughter's little husband' 622
- sung by the star !gaunu 518
- sung by the young woman as she returns home to her breast 932
- sung by women 518
- sung by |kuken-|u |unu: 'O caterpillar' 722
- sung by |xue 1062
- sung in the |goo or ≠gebbi-gu 804
- sung to !goura 154
- sung to soothe the Springbok children 893
- sung to the horse by women to show their admiration 908
- that changes the girl into a Baboon 767
- that the Ostrich sings to ≠kainyatara's companions 898
- that the people sing to the Phyllomorpha paradoxa or withered-leaf insect 652
- that Xaa-ttin used to sing 460
- the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food 678
- the Cat's 88
- the Cat's song 305
- the elder brother's 756, 759
- the girl, of the Early Race of people, who married a Baboon 767
- the Jackal's 86
- the lion's 981
- the old man calls or sings to the mist 566
- the old woman's 150, 151
- to the 'lizard-scrap' 678, 691
- to the mist called |kumm 566, 567
- verse 691
- verses of 85
- what the lion says 1064
- Xaa-ttin's, about !nuin-|kui-ten 459
- [probably] given by !nanni 976
- |kaggen and the Cat 211, 240
- |ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen 667
- |ku-te-!gaua's to the fire and the cats 667
- |xam 154
- |xue and the bam-bam, and as other things 1062
- ||kabbo's 604

songs
- !kun 951
- and baboons and the ≠gebbi-ggu 541
- and magic taught by the sorcerer !nuin-|kui-ten 458
- and tunes of the ≠gebbi-ggu 559
- baboons dance the ≠gebbi-ggu 559
- given by !nanni and Tamme 951
- names of 964
- of the !kun 964
- or tunes of ≠gebbi-ggu 541
- singing and dancing the ≠gebbi-ggu 559
- sorcerers teach their magic and songs 458

sorcerer
- !gixa 803
- 'Bushman witchdoctor' or doctor 175
- 'works' the rain 639
- a lament about 459
- a man who beats and bites 175
- a rain-man 639
- a rain-sorcerer 911
- a real 911
- a song about !nuin-|kui-ten 459
- actions of the 118
- and !nuin-|kui-ten the rainmaker 459
- and the broken string 459, 460
- and the rain-bull 460
- and what Xaa-ttin used to sing 460
- brings clouds 911
- called !guerriten-dde 803
- called !haunu 900
- called !nuin-|kui-ten 460
- called |kaunu 911
- commands the rain 911
- death of 459
- doings of the 118
- enchanter 118
- has his nose 175
- has lion hair growing on him 175
- his work 460
- in |han≠kass'o's country 777
- is a 'magician' 639
- is a 'wise man' 639
- is invisible 118
- known by |han≠kass'o 911
- one who knows everything 118
- or !gixa 911
- or healer 175
- or magician 459
- or rainmaker 777
- pants 838
- people ask him for rain 639
- prophet 118
- rain-sorcerer 777, 900
- rainmaker 460, 911
- rain–sorcerer 639
- rituals involving 175
- see healer 396
- see rainmaker 393
- springbok-sorcerer 803
- strikes the bowstring and brings rain 911
- the 'Toornan' 175
- the treatment of 536
- the wind-sorceress or windmaker |xannan |xannan 536
- the work of 639
- the |gwai who killed his sister-in-law, and was killed by his brother-in-law 838
- their actions when angry 536
- treatment of 175
- trembles 175
- who is Rain 900
- who makes rain 777
- who resembles a springbok in his springbok cap 803
- wind-sorcerers 536
- wizard 118
- |gwai is, and pants 838
- |kannu the rainmaker 639
- |xam name for one 118
- ||kunn, the rainmaker 777

sorcerers
- !giten 717, 720, 721, 782
- !nuin-|kui-ten 456
- !nuin-|kui-ten who was a sorcerer or magician 458
- 'Bushman doctors' 493
- 'eat' handsome people 720
- 'eat' people 720, 721
- 'medicine men' 782
- 'seize' people who are handsome 720
- 'shoot' at people with magic things 523
- 'shoot' people while they are being 'snored' 720
- 'snore' people 717
- 'snoring' and 'sneezing' by 782
- 'tread the ||ken' 434
- a sorceress called |xannan |xannan 538
- about 717
- about sorcerers and their work 493
- about their blood 493
- act like a jackal 494
- actions that bring them 525
- address the rain 578
- ancestors 456
- and !nuin-|kui-ten 458
- and 'exorcism' 493
- and concerning apparitions 532
- and death 560
- and Dia!kwain's uncle |uherre's power over ostriches 442
- and earthquakes 493, 525
- and falling stars 491, 493, 494, 525
- and falling stars and earthquakes 473
- and gemsbok 434
- and ill people 493
- and illness 491
- and locusts 523, 638
- and nosebleeds 493
- and obtaining tto 712
- and other sorcerers 530
- and people who have left home 455
- and people's blood 525
- and playing games with locusts 523
- and rain's things 521
- and respect for magic things 521
- and respecting magic things 523
- and spirit-people 493
- and stars 493
- and Stow's illustrations number 8 and 9 434
- and Stow's picture no. 3 of sorcerer's ||ken dance 529
- and swallows 521
- and teaching the ||ken dance 530
- and the actions of stars 491
- and the actions of the game 442
- and the beating of the kaross 497
- and the beating of the stone on ground 442
- and the death of people 525
- and the early morning 525
- and the fiery star 525
- and the game 446
- and the jackal's call 494
- and the locust bird 523
- and the male steenbok 529
- and the man of illness 497
- and the north wind 591
- and the rain 491, 493
- and the rain's things 578
- and the rain's wind 591
- and the reason for falling stars 493
- and the story of Kki-a-||ken 521
- and the throwing of shadows 525
- and the treatment of locusts 915
- and the treatment of their things 491
- and times of the day 455
- and transformation 430, 455
- and words and sentences 473
- and ≠kamme-an's prayer to the spirit-people 446
- angry 493
- anointing with tto as protection from 712
- apparitions appear when they carry a person quite away 532
- are 'great men' 529, 530
- are 'great' 529
- are angry people 532
- are cold 530
- are invisible 525
- are never hot 530
- assume a jackal's form 494
- assume other forms 455, 560
- at a different place 493
- at first give old, ugly things 442
- at night 530
- at ||kabbo's place 430
- attack people at night 493
- avoidance behaviour relating to 525
- bad 721
- become angry when people laugh 434
- become beasts of prey 458
- become birds and jackals 455
- become birds and jackals at ||kabbo's place 430
- become lions 458
- become stars 494
- becoming 455, 530
- bewitch and kill people 560
- bewitch people 717
- bewitch the game 442, 446
- break the rain's ribs 591
- care for their people 494
- care for themselves 530
- cause illness 521, 712, 717
- cause sickness 720
- change into birds and jackals 430
- charm locusts 523
- collect locusts for other sorcerers 721
- command their sorcery 493
- dance first 529
- dance with gemsbok's horns 434
- dead 446, 456
- dead, are those who 'rode the Rain' 865
- dead- 442
- Dia!kwain's mother asks them for game 442
- do not altogether die 446
- do not leave sorcery behind 491
- doings of 530, 717
- earthquakes occur at the time they die 493
- eat dead people 721
- eat flies 721
- eat locusts 721
- enter people as swallows 521
- fall heavily 491
- fearing and respecting 493, 497
- force other sorcerers to eat the flesh of dead human beings 721
- force people to eat certain things 721
- frightening them away 712
- game- 442, 446
- give people locusts to eat 523
- go about while others sleep 455, 493
- go about with locusts 523
- good and bad 458, 493
- grasp the rain 591
- have power even when dead 491
- have things whose bodies they are 560
- healers 436, 491, 493, 717
- healing by 782
- hear when people call 456
- hide when people throw stones at the tto mine 712
- how they act in animal form 455
- how they harm the people 538
- how they must be treated 442
- how they sometimes assume the form of a jackal or of a bird 455
- how they teach 529
- how they test the people 442
- how Xaa-ttin asked the dead magician !nuin-|kui-ten for rain 456
- imitate gemsbok 434
- in Mr Orpen's picture 560
- kill others 530
- kill people 521, 523, 525
- kill people with magic 523
- kill with magic or sorcery 497
- know their 'mates' 530
- know things 446, 491, 493, 494, 525, 530, 560
- know when other sorcerers are coming 530
- laughing at 434
- lead the rain with magic 452
- learning to be a sorcerer 529
- lions are 420
- live in holes 712
- long for people they loved 491
- look down on people 491
- looking at them makes people ill 712
- magicians 456
- make handsome people ill 720
- make people ill 497, 720
- making them hide 712
- more about 494
- Mr Stow's picture of the dance of sorcerers 434
- observe people 434
- open and roll the stone from the hole 523
- or 'Bushman doctor' 782
- or healers 529
- or healers and the ||ken dance 530
- or magicians 442, 446
- or rainmakers 521
- people ask them for game 446
- people ask them for rain 456
- people call the name of dead- 538
- people who recognise them 494
- people's fear of 436
- people's treatment of 560
- people's understanding of and education about 434
- possess their nose 446
- possess their noses 452
- possession by 493, 493
- prayers to 456
- praying to 442
- precautions to be taken against when collecting tto 712
- prohibitions regarding speaking their names 436
- prohibitions relating to 525
- protect their own people 493
- protect their people from other sorcerers 458
- protection against 525
- punish those who disrespect magic things 497
- rain- 452, 456, 493, 528, 578
- rain-sorcerers 865
- rainmakers 452, 456, 458, 491, 493, 528, 578, 591
- rainmaking, when the wind is in the north 591
- rain–sorcerers 638
- release locusts and locust birds 523
- remove 'harm's things which make people ill 782
- resemble lions 720
- respect for 434
- respecting 430, 434
- respecting their things 523
- respecting them 436
- rituals and ceremonies performed by 493
- see Rainmaker 125
- seek and find people 494
- send locusts to people 523
- sense and see things 560
- shoot people while they are being snored 720
- shoot with invisible arrows 717, 720
- show people how to dance 529
- shudder 530
- shut locusts in the hole 523
- sing the story of the Rain and the maiden 452
- smell people who die 560
- smell things 491, 494
- smell what they have killed 494
- speak to people as a jackal 494
- spirit-people 442, 538
- stand in front 529
- still possess power when dead 442
- strengthen themselves 560
- strike spirits out 493
- take care of their people 455
- take people away 491
- take people away or kill them 497
- take the dead away 532
- teach sorcery through dance 529, 530
- teach their magic and songs 458
- teaching their dance 434
- teachings about 491, 525, 528
- test people's education and respect 434
- that live in the tto or 'rooi klip' mine 712
- the 'snoring out' of other sorcerers 493
- the actions of 456, 493
- the consequences of angering 528
- the dance of 434
- the death of 446, 458, 491, 493, 494
- the doings of 782
- the great Bushman doctress and sorceress Ttanno !khauken 436
- the ill-effects of their arrows 717
- the magic powers of 491
- the people's treatment of 434
- the power of dead 446, 456
- the rainmaker ||kunn 528
- the scent of their blood 530
- the smell of 493
- the sound of their hearts 491
- the sound their hearts make 493
- the spirit-people 446
- the time when they come quickly 525
- the transformation of 458
- the treatment of 430, 436
- the work and actions of 436
- the ||ken dance 434
- their 'killing magic' 523
- their actions 455, 491, 494, 525, 532, 560
- their actions and doings 712
- their actions and work 529
- their actions when angry 523
- their ancestors 446
- their arrows cause illness and kill people 720
- their behaviour towards people 434
- their blood vessels 493
- their dancing apparel and dress 529
- their dancing stick 529
- their doings 560, 720
- their doings and actions 721
- their dress 434
- their healing of people 493
- their hearts become stars and fall 494
- their hearts fall into the waterpit 491
- their hearts go into the waterpit 493
- their human forms 455
- their human forms sleeps at home 455
- their insides are cold 530
- their karosses 530
- their magic dance 491
- their magic kills 493
- their magic power 493, 494, 530
- their magic powers 446
- their magic things 560
- their magic walks about at night 491
- their magical expeditions 458, 491, 530
- their nose 491
- their noses bleed 530
- their place 530
- their possessions 560
- their power 560
- their power after death 538
- their power over the game 442
- their rituals and ceremonies 560
- their smell 491
- their sneezing 530
- their sneezing and snoring of people 493
- their sorcery kills people 493
- their spirit is alive after death 493
- their things 491
- their things seem alive 491
- their thinking strings 446
- their thoughts 493
- their transformation 491, 494
- their veins 530
- their work 430, 442, 528
- their work and actions 434, 458, 530
- their work with the rain 578, 591
- their work with waterbulls 493
- things that strengthen their senses 560
- thunder and vibrate 491
- travel at night 458, 491
- tremble 530
- use their jackal's nose to find out things 494
- walk about 525
- walk at night 494
- want to fall heavily when they die 491
- watch how people treat and respect magic things 497
- watch how people treat locusts 523
- watch over people away from home 494
- watch over their people 455
- watch over their things 491
- watch people at night 458
- watch while they sleep 493
- wear gemsbok's-head caps 434
- wear steenbok 529
- what |kaunu the rainmaker said about locusts 915
- when asleep 530
- when their hearts fall 493
- when their sorcery falls 493
- when they seek and take people away 525
- who 'have got the Rain' 865
- who are good 455
- who have died of sickness 491
- who kill people 430
- who possess or make rain 528
- who possess the rain 865
- why they tremble in their sleep 530
- wind- 538
- |kannu the rainmaker 638
- |kaunu calls out and drives the locusts 915
- |kaunu says 'locusts come out' 915
- |nu-!ke or magicians who have died still possess power 446
- ≠xuru 493

sorceress
- !gixa 324, 397, 400
- !kwarra-an 397, 398, 400
- a speech made by the sorceress !kwarra-an 397
- about the sorceress !kwarra-an 398
- advises Jackal 342
- and Dia!kwain 398
- and Dutch or 'Boers' 398
- and restoring dying 397
- and sneezing 397
- and springbok 324
- and story of the Lion and the Jackals 342
- and teaching of sorcerers 397
- and the naming of her son, Ssu-!kui-ten-tta or Snore-White-Lying 428
- has killing power 397
- healer 324, 397, 398, 400, 428
- heals or doctors 324
- her artery or great vein 397
- her blood 397
- her complaint 397
- her Dutch name is Mietje 398
- her fight with people over payment 397
- her lament 397
- her methods of healing 397
- her name is Doro 400
- her nose bleeds 397
- her nose is weak 397
- her personal history 397
- her power has been taken away 397
- her relations 398
- her snoring power 397
- her speech 397
- her transformation 433
- her work is not easy 397
- is a 'great person' 436
- is a doctoress 436
- is a healer 436
- is a springbok enchantress 436
- is a wise woman 400, 436
- is an old woman 436
- is angry 397
- is beaten by her husband 397
- is weary and old 397
- Jackal-sorceress 342
- makes a mountain 342
- old woman 342
- or springbok enchantress 433
- or wise woman 324, 397
- people call her name 397
- people forget her 397
- removes harm's things 397
- saying her name 436
- smells out illness 397
- snores badly 397
- springbok- 433
- takes things out of body 397
- the Bushman doctress and sorceress Ttanno !khauken 433
- the people mistreat her 397
- the personal history of 398
- the tale of a wise person or sorceress 397
- Ttanno !khauken 433, 436
- wants a knife 397
- who healed or snored Dia!kwain's throat 400
- who snored Dia!kwain 397
- who will not snore people 397
- whose hands are weak 400
- |xam names for 324
- ||kabbo's grandmother was one 324

sorcery
- 'smelling' 560
- and Mr Orpen's picture of sorcerers 560
- and the giving of !kweiten ta ||ken's name 438
- and the killing of !kweiten ta ||ken's relations 438
- and why Dia!kwain's brother Ko-bbo received his name 435
- Dia!kwain's relatives 'killed with' 435
- killing with 438
- kills people 560
- people who die of 560
- sorcery's bell and the flood at Victoria West 812

sorcery's bell
- a rain which kills people 812
- and the flood at Victoria West 812

sounds
- and music 387
- given by !kweiten ta ||ken 387

soup
- and the Hyena's revenge 194, 843
- and the little porcupine 730
- and the use of a cooking pot 843
- made of hyena flesh 21
- methods of drinking 843
- porcupine flesh made into 730
- pot of 194
- the |khu, or 'Bushman soup spoon' 585

south wind
- blows 'standing above' 594
- blows dust 594
- is called !khwe a tss'u ||kau !khe 594

spear
- !guonni's, with which he stabs and makes people ill 519
- the Porcupine heats one and puts it in the ears of |kaggen and |kwammana's children 788
- |kaggen and ||khwai-hemm 788
- ||khwai-hemm's tongue resembles 788

spectre
- -lion 88
- apparition 88
- ghost 88
- seen by ||kabbo 88

speech
- 'nice' 66
- 'ugly' 66
- a comparison between the European and |xam methods of articulation 889
- a maiden who snaps her fingers at the rain causes lightning 510
- a very old language of people who died before the First Bushmen lived and the |xam name for them 88
- adventure of |khui- |a with a family of baboons 542
- and actions of the new maiden 510
- and animals that have 'thoughts' 226
- and Moon and Hare story 464
- and the Blue Crane and the girls 99
- and the language spoken by the Ichneumon 94
- and the Lions, the Tortoise, the little Hare and the old woman 123
- and the maiden's cursing or scolding 452
- and the story of the new maiden taken in a whirlwind by the angry Rain 452
- and the ways of using the tongue 889
- and ways of speaking |xam 99
- and words and sentences 473
- and |kaggen takes away the Tick's sheep 293
- angry, scolding, of the maiden 509
- animals that can talk 226
- animals which talk 266
- baboon understands human 541
- baboons and the ≠gebbi-ggu 541
- baboons should not be spoken with 544
- baboons speak Bushman, and have wives 549
- baboons speak |xam and understand what people are saying 544
- baboons talk to people 544
- baboons understand human 542
- different types of 66
- Hare did not speak nicely 1057
- how an Elephant steals a young Springbok from |kaggen 118
- Ichneumon's about lions 245
- Ichneumon's, about lions which eat all things 244
- Jackal talks with its peculiar click 49
- language spoken by animals 66
- Lion and Tortoise 62
- Lion talks 1009
- lions talk sounding like men 385
- made by the sorceress !kwarra-an 397
- Moon has power of 218
- of animals 66, 99, 326
- of ants 473
- of baboons 549
- of certain animals and the Moon 66
- of Hyena 1009
- of Lion 1009
- of Moon 326
- of new maidens and the rain 452
- of the Elephant-calf 118
- of the girl who snaps her fingers at her parents and the rain 509
- of the Hare 114, 1057
- of the Hare about death 364, 365
- of the Jackal 49
- of the Moon who talks 37
- of the Moon, who spoke nicely 1057
- of the old woman 123
- of the ostrich 899
- of the wounded man to his wife 250
- of the |xam 889
- of Tortoise 62
- of |kaggen's shoe 66
- Porcupine's about the coming of |khwai-hemm 293
- rain imitates the maiden's 510
- special 66, 99, 666
- special, of the jackal 230
- spoken by Baboons 666
- the animal clicks and ways of speaking |xam 326
- the Blue Crane's and rain 275
- the Blue Crane's speech 99
- the doings of the jackals 263
- the Elephant does not speak 'nicely' 118
- the Hare spoke 'incorrectly' 114
- the Hare talked backwards 114
- the Hare understands the old woman's 123
- the Hare's 66
- the Hare's speech to the Moon 1106
- the Ichneumon's when |kaggen had taken away the Meerkats' possessions 94
- the Jackal's and Day's Heart star's discourse 263, 266
- the manner of speaking 889
- the monster ||khwai-hemm's speech 88
- the monster ||khwai-hemm's to |kaggen 294
- the Moon and the Hare and the origin of death 114
- the Moon and the Hare and |xue 1057
- the Moon and the Hare: a version by Dia!kwain 364
- the Moon and the Hare: a version by ≠kasin 365
- the Moon and the little Hare and 66
- the Moon speaks the shoe's language 66
- the Moon's 66
- the Moon's to people about death 464
- the Moon's to the Hare 1106
- the Ostrich which talks 269
- the reason why the ostrich does not click 899
- the son of |kaggen, the Baboons, and |kaggen 666
- the song of the !khau's child is sung 'with the mouth' 691
- the Tortoise does not talk with its tongue 62
- the Tortoise talks with 'inside' of mouth 62
- the Tortoise talks with 'mouth's skin' 62
- used by the Moon 66
- what the Day's Heart star says to his daughter 262
- what the man says while cleansing himself 1094
- | a khumm called by a lion 385
- |huntu !kat !katten's things have power of 218
- |kaggen and the Moon 37
- |kaggen's reply to ||khwai-hemm 294
- |kaggen's things have power of 218
- |kaggen, his wife and their things 218
- |xue can speak to animals 1017
- |xue speaks like the lion 1017
- |xue's to the Hare 1092
- ||kabbo's dream of lions which talked 268
- ||khwai-hemm's 293

spells
- and ||kabbo's maternal grandmother who was a !gixa 324
- for springbok 324

spider
- bite 9
- healing a bite of 9
- the !ka-ka |khueten 680
- the appearance of 680
- the habits and actions of 680

spirit
- -animals 1101
- -antelope 1101
- -snake 1101
- a snake found near the grave is not killed 1101
- and lizards found near graves 1101
- of dead people 1101
- of the dead and animals 1101
- |xue is, and kills his child 1026

spirit-people
- a prayer to 446
- and beating a stone on the ground 446
- and Dia!kwain's uncle |uherre's power over ostriches 442
- and life after death 854
- and snoring 493
- dead game sorcerers 442
- dead sorcerers 446, 493
- do not altogether die 446
- formerly possessed game 446
- game's sorcerers 446
- give fat or old things 446
- harm people and cause illness if their names are called 854
- knew things 446
- possess and kill people 493
- teachings about 854
- test the people 446
- their doings 446
- their power over the game 446
- their signs 446
- their thinking strings 446
- what the dead are called 854
- what |han≠kass'o's grandfather, Tsatsi, calls the dead 854
- |nu-!ke 446
- |nu-!ke or magicians who have died still possess power 446
- ≠kamme-an's prayer to 446

spirits
- and !kun treatment of thieves 1082
- and graves 1102
- and snakes 1102
- animal- 1102
- are called ||gan-a 1020
- mere 1102
- names for 1020
- of men 1102
- of women 1102
- or dreams 1020
- snake- 1102
- that go away 1102
- that stay at the grave 1102
- the dead 1082
- their names are feared and avoided 1082
- what the Makoba call them 1020
- what the Ovaherero call them 1020

spirit–people
- and dead wind–sorcerers or windmakers 538
- and how Xaa-ttin asked the dead magician !nuin-|kui-ten for rain 456
- dead sorcerers have power after death 538
- dead sorcerers still have power 456
- the people ask them for wind 538

spoon
- and Driedoorn fire 585
- and the springboks 'paxwax' 585
- for drinking soup 585
- made by men 585
- made from Proteles' hair 585
- name of 585
- stem of which is used to scratch the fire together 585
- the making of 585
- the |khu, or 'Bushman soup spoon' 585
- used by the |xam 585

spoons
- and the sorceress who snored Dia!kwain's throat 400
- Dia!kwain's mother's 400

spoor
- and the monster ||khwai-hemm's speech 88
- crossing of and Jackal's song 86
- jackal crosses 86
- of the Moon 37
- |kaggen and the Moon 37
- |kaggen crosses that of !goe !kweitentu 88

springbok
- !kun name of 1063
- !nana-an: the custom of calling to the wounded 849
- 'beast of prey' 705
- 'child' 705
- 'enter the skin' 709
- 'first-heads' 706
- 'is a man who loves the rain' 815
- 'lamb' or kid 705
- 'little' 705
- 'Roe string' 163
- 'young' 705
- -hunting after rain 815
- -kids 634
- -kids bleat 705
- -mothers 634
- -mothers grunt 705
- a description of a herd 703
- a herd when a white one is present 706
- a man hides from a Lion under 24
- a prayer that an arrow may hit 877
- a ritual for shooting well 311
- a sorcerer called !guerriten-dde 803
- about the actions of the old rams who have 'bitter kidneys' or no fear 706
- actions of are omens of death 461
- and !nanna-sse 474, 707, 709
- and a 'charmed place' 647
- and a beating of the flesh which tells the |xam things 287
- and accidental death of hunter 253
- and an incantation to the Moon and stars 14
- and Dia!kwain's dream of the death of his father 461
- and doings of a family of lions 245
- and exhausting arrows 706
- and female rain 274
- and Heron's song 85
- and how Korannas and the |xam cut themselves 311
- and how Xaa-ttin asked the dead magician !nuin-|kui-ten for rain 456
- and hunting observances 707, 713
- and Ichneumon's discourse 272
- and mode of addressing rain 815
- and prayers to the stars 877
- and presentiments 287
- and Rainmaker 274
- and respecting the game 713
- and seasons 274
- and sorcerers 324
- and springbok–sorcerers 803
- and successful hunting 474
- and the !khau lizard and the rain-clouds 613
- and the actions of children 709
- and the Bushman doctress and sorceress Ttanno !khauken 433
- and the Day's Heart star's discourse 266, 266
- and the digging out of 'Bushman rice' 662
- and the doings of the jackals 263
- and the girl who made the Milky Way 285
- and the great Bushman doctress and sorceress Ttanno !khauken 436
- and the Jackal's speech 266, 266
- and the making of clay pots 823
- and the marking of arrows 850
- and the rain 456, 634
- and the son of the Wind 644
- and the song of the Blue Crane 85
- and the springbok enchantress 433
- and the use of a screen of bushes when driving 647
- and the wind 815
- and the work of the sorceress Ttanno !khauken 433
- and the ≠nuturu 653
- and time of year 274
- and tools used by the |xam 57
- and treatment of prey 349
- and Tsatsi's treatment of bones 713
- and what the stars say 877
- and widow's story 253
- and |kaggen 392
- and ||kabbo's dream 268
- and ||kabbo's maternal grandmother who was a !gixa 324
- and ≠kasin's hunting adventures 349
- animals eaten by the !kun 1063
- are 'numerous' 703, 705
- arrowheads for shooting them are not poisoned 588
- at Dia!kwain's wife's grave 429
- avoiding wounds when hunting 713
- bewitched must be left alone 647
- blood boiled in clay pot 823
- blood carried in a stomach 823
- bring 'death-news' 429
- calling and making its heart descend, or 'fall' 849
- calling to 706
- calling to and making them 'lie down' and die when wounded 849
- children fear and do not eat its tongue-tip 563
- come after it rains 815
- cover the 'whole place' 703
- deceive people 427
- description of a hunt 824
- Dia!kwain's brother Ko-bbo ate Ttanno !khauken's pet 433
- Dia!kwain's mother has no 'flocks' 433
- disperse when it is warm 701
- doings of 266, 266, 287
- doings of, and hunting 706
- drink rain's blood and milk 274
- driving 647, 824
- eaten as carrion 858
- eaten by the Vultures 858
- eating of 253
- eating their flesh and hunting 474
- eating, and 'missing the game' 708
- enchantress 436
- ensuring success in hunting 707
- ensuring they 'lie down' and die 716
- ewe 705
- ewes and their lambs' cries 705
- fear the ostrich-feather brushes 815
- flesh and the saliva of the new maiden 285
- follow the rain's 'spoor' 613
- food eaten in times of hunger 627
- food- 433
- formerly ate ||ki 392
- go inside the body 709
- handling their meat 474
- herd 705
- horn point used for digging and stirring the fire 57
- horn point used in digging stick 57
- horns and skin used in preparation of ostrich-feather brushes 824
- how people address the herd 706
- how the people address 705
- hunted by lions 245
- hunted by the elder sister's husband 858
- hunting 168, 250, 634
- hunting and smoke 824
- hunting and the new maiden 285
- hunting and the rain 701
- hunting and the wind 644
- hunting and windmaking 647
- hunting follows rain 613
- hunting of and rain 274
- hunting of is unsuccessful after the death of a companion 716
- hunting of, and 'Bushman letters' 287
- hunting tactics for 713
- hunting with feathered and poisoned arrows 661
- hunting, and dust signals 800
- hunting, preparation and eating of 163
- Hyena takes away Jackals' 266
- Hyena takes Jackal's 263
- its breast is fat 653
- its heart 653
- its horn is used as a spoon 823
- its horns 663
- its other name 868
- its paxwax and the making of the |khu or the 'Bushman soup spoon' 585
- its paxwax is called |kuerri 585
- its pelt 613
- its tapping of its blood 287
- Jackal asks Leopard for its flesh 28
- jackal watches lion eat 23
- kapater 433
- kid 705
- knew the death of Dia!kwain's wife 429
- leopards and jackals 28
- making a screen of bushes when hunting 713
- making beds from 85
- making good wounds 706, 716
- making them 'lie down' and die 713
- making them lie down and die 706
- making veldskoen from skin of 8
- male and female 706
- males 'stand' 705
- methods of driving 815
- methods of hunting 253, 613, 647, 701
- methods of shooting 706
- mode of eating porcupine 627
- must be observed 427
- names for different 253
- names for parts of the herd 647
- names of the parts of the herd 706
- neck sinew used for binding brush 57
- obstinate 427
- parts eaten 653
- people imitate the sounds of 705
- places to shoot on their bodies 706
- porcupine eaten when there are no 627
- possess magic sticks, invisible arrows, magic arrows 709
- preparation of 253
- rain brings 274
- recognising arrows when shooting 850
- resemble the Milky Way 706
- resemble the water of the sea 703
- respect for a white one 807
- respecting the 709
- respecting the game 807
- rituals to make them come straight up to the hunters 716
- running 647
- scraping 85
- seem to die 427
- sense and know things 427
- sense death at a place 427
- shooting 707
- shot by Dia!kwain 429
- skin 8, 85
- skin sack 24
- slaying of a white one will cause the others to disappear 807
- small and large herds 706
- sounds made by 705
- spells for 324
- stars in Orion's belt named according to hunting of 933
- startling and driving the herd 706
- tactics for hunting 849
- tactics in hunting 706, 713, 824, 919
- tactics in hunting and chasing 800
- take people to a beast of prey 427
- take people to their deaths 427
- teachings about 427
- that 'decays' 647
- that 'falls down' and dies from its wounds 647
- that are 'fastened' 433
- that does not 'fall down' 647
- that lies on the ground is eaten by vultures 858
- that live 716
- the !khau kills those hunted by the Long-nosed Mice 906
- the 'advance guard' 647
- the actions of different types 474
- the actions of the man who kills 707
- the appearance of 272, 613
- the clot in the wound 706
- the composition of the herd 706
- the consequences of eating its tongue-tip 563
- the consequences of killing a white one 807
- the consequences of playing with their bones and skin 709
- the cutting up of 707
- the dressing, preparation, and cooking of meat 349
- the driving of 701
- the eating of 272, 708
- the enchanting of 433
- the female or doe 613
- the flesh is laid on bushes 707
- the growing of its horns 663
- the growth of their horns 706
- the habits and actions of 663, 703, 705
- the herd or 'troop' 706
- the hunting of 272, 427, 474, 703, 807
- the leader 647
- the Lizard, the Mice and |kaggen 906
- the making of a needle from its foreleg 440
- the making of arrows used for shooting 588
- the male 613
- the man wounded while out hunting 250
- the maturing of 663
- the mothers protect their young 705
- the name of the bone used to make a sewing needle 440
- the names for different 706
- the names for wounded and unwounded 800
- the names of their bones 710
- the nature and habits of 272, 427, 634, 647, 706
- the number of arrows used to hunt 647
- the passing of the herd and the man whose 'head is red' 824
- the people feel them coming 287
- the ram or male 663
- the reasons for its colour 392
- the rituals performed for successful hunting of 716
- the shooting of 634, 703
- the sorceress's cap made from the head of 433
- the springbok's story 427
- the stars curse their eyes 877
- the transformation of the new maiden's kaross into 323
- the treatment of their bones 707, 709
- the use of ostrich feathers tied on sticks to drive 824
- the Vultures and their elder sister 858
- the white 706
- the |xam hunt 253
- their 'beating' 815
- their 'foot-paths' 701
- their 'water-courses' 701
- their actions 634
- their actions and premonition of death 429
- their actions at sunset 427
- their actions foretell death 429
- their actions foretell things 427
- their actions tell when lion is near 427
- their actions when shot 706
- their actions when shot and wounded 706
- their actions when they are chased in the sun 800
- their arrows are clean and handsome 919
- their arrows are those which have no barblets 919
- their behaviour and time of the day 701
- their behaviour when it is cool 701
- their blood 707
- their body parts are given to different members of the group 707
- their cry 427
- their eating habits 634
- their habits and actions 701
- their horns are burnt to disperse the rain–clouds 816
- their nature and habits 474, 708, 709
- their stomach is filled with blood 707
- their young 706
- try and dislodge the arrow 706
- Ttanno !khauken possesses 433
- Ttanno !khauken's pet- 433
- understanding their actions and knowing things 427
- waiting for 647, 713
- want the lion to hear them 427
- watching for 'jackal' clouds and the rain which brings 814
- what hunters call to a wounded 849
- what is eaten when there are none 662
- what the 'children' say 705
- what the 'mothers' say 705
- when to leave them alone 427
- which are alive 800
- which have been shot 800
- wind, weather and hunting of 701
- women must not eat the flesh from its shoulder blades 708
- ||kabbo's dream of lions which talked 268

Springbok
- -husband cleaves his wife's foot 892
- accounting for the springbok's hooves 892
- and Anteater and Lynx 197
- and Anteater's laws 188
- and Anteater's story 373
- and Anteater, Lynx and Partridge 373
- and beasts of prey who were once people 763
- and the Anteater's laws 763
- and the Early Race 118
- appearance of 118
- baby 118
- became people because of how they cried 619
- becomes a maiden 373
- carried off by the Elephant 118
- child 118
- child is a maiden 197
- daughter 373
- Day's Heart and 45
- eating of 45
- grows up 373
- how an Elephant steals a young one from |kaggen 118
- hunting of 45
- is fed 'Bushman rice' by Anteater 373
- is loved 118
- is rescued by Lynx 373
- is returned to her mother 373
- is stolen by Anteater 373
- little 118
- Mother 373
- mother is heartsore 118
- name of 118
- named !khauko 188
- stolen away by Lynx 188
- the 'springbuck' 619
- the Anteater's laws 197
- the Anteater, Springbok and Lynx 188, 197
- the little Springbok 763
- the mother- 892
- the plot to rescue young Springbok by the Lynx and his people 892
- the sound it makes 118
- the young 373
- were changed into people by |kaggen 619
- when 'Bushmen were springbucks and cried' 619
- which has a navel 892
- who are clever, tell the Anteater their children are

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